COVID-19 has led to an abrupt change in time spent at home, with many cities and states implementing official stay-at-home (SAH), or "lockdown," policies. Using cell phone block-level activity data administrative 911 crime from the City of Chicago, we estimate effects Illinois governor's SAH order on calls for police service, crimes recorded by police, arrests made relating domestic violence. We find that announcement increased leading a decrease total but subsequent increase...

Importance Poverty has long been associated with a higher risk for child maltreatment, and recent research suggests that income support policies are reduced abuse neglect. However, supports tied to employment cannot separate the associations of from those employment. Objective To estimate short-term association universal unconditional payments parents Design, Setting, Participants In this cross-sectional study, variation in timing 2021 expanded tax credit (CTC) advance was used determine...

Child maltreatment (CM) is a global public health problem. Evidence-based home visiting programs, such as SafeCare®, reduce CM risk, and enhance parent-child relationships other protective factors. As the result of COVID-19 pandemic resulting restrictions, SafeCare Providers transitioned from to virtual delivery for curriculum. The purpose this study 1) examine active Providers' opinions on feasibility effectiveness via remote delivery, 2) better understand workforce concerns human service...

Contemporary child welfare policies in the United States are well-suited for prevention of abuse but fail to account relationship between family financial hardship and neglect, that is, lack safe consistent care. We argue rates neglect have been stagnant because two failures: (1) recognition as a causal mechanism (2) federal policy purposefully omits alleviation solution occurrence neglect. Because U.S. antipoverty programs operate independently one another, our siloed structure misses...

To investigate the effect of minimum wage laws on adolescent birth rates in United States.

Child maltreatment is a pervasive problem in the United States with significant economic, health, and human capital consequences. Children under age one experience highest rates of child abuse neglect greatest likelihood fatality from maltreatment, including shaken baby syndrome. Publicly-funded paid family leave (PFL) programs U.S. have been found to improve risk factors for increased parental time investments children, better maternal household income protection months surrounding birth....

ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether Medicaid coverage of healthcare services provided within schools affects the supply school‐based health clinics. Data Sources and Study Setting We combine nationwide data spanning 2012–2020 on Federally Qualified Health Centers delivering school settings with state policy information expansion to healthcare. Design Until 2014, federal “Free Care Rule” restricted centers from using funding provide unless these were part student's Individual Education...

Each year, nearly 2.5 million evictions are filed in the United States. Recent research links to a host of negative outcomes, but effects on child well-being less studied, even as disproportionately experienced by families with children. In this article, we investigate relationship between and reports abuse neglect, key indicator well-being. Drawing 5 years block-group-level administrative data Connecticut, find that eviction notices increase within neighborhood, maltreatment also increase,...

We use high-frequency mobile phone movement data and quick-release administrative from Georgia to examine how time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic is related child maltreatment referrals. Findings show that referrals plummeted by 58% relative previous years, driven fewer education personnel. After this initial decline, however, each 15 minutes was associated with an increase in of material neglect 3.5% supervisory 1%. Our results describe children have fared wave pandemic, long-term...

Abstract Background The ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has heightened several risk factors for child abuse and neglect (CAN). We study whether the public health response to it affected CAN-related pediatric emergency department (ED) visits in southeastern United States (US). Methods performed a retrospective chart review on medical records of ED from level I hospital system serving one largest metropolitan areas US January through June 2018–2020. used multivariate Poisson regression...

To assess how the 2012 Affordable Care Act (ACA) policy change, which required most private health insurance plans to cover lactation-support services and breastfeeding equipment (without cost-sharing), affected outcomes.We used a regression-adjusted difference-in-differences approach with cross-sectional observational data from US National Immunization Survey 2008 2014 estimate effect of ACA change on outcomes, including initiation, duration, age at first formula feeding. The sample...

Despite substantial evidence of the benefits breastfeeding for both mothers and children, rates sustained in United States are quite low. This study examined whether mandated coverage lactation support services under Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects behavior.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to extreme social isolation, precarious employment and job loss, working from home while tending children, limited access public services. confluence of these factors likely affects child health well-being. We combine early release maltreatment reports in Indiana with unique newly available mobile phone movement data better understand the relationship between staying at intensively during maltreatment. Our findings indicate that prolonged stays promoted...

Abstract We study the relationship between opioid use and child well‐being. combine data on legal prescriptions, opioid‐related emergency department visits, opioid‐involved mortality with foster care entrance records maltreatment reports. find that increases in visits are associated increased entry, particularly among young children. no significant distribution quantities home removals. Finally, we examine public policies welfare outcomes, finding mixed relationships various removal from home.

Abstract A quickly developing literature has shown that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions have improved health insurance coverage, health, and financial well‐being among low‐income adults without dependent children. This population includes noncustodial parents. With substantial overlap in is typically obligated to pay child support strongly benefited from expansions, there may be potential implications for enforcement. In this paper, I examine effect of public eligibility...