Probable Causation

Episode 64: Jason Baron on foster care placement


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Jason Baron talks about how foster care placement affects future criminal justice contact.

“Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Random Investigator Assignment” by E. Jason Baron and Max Gross. [Working paper available by request from the authors.]

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

“Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care” by Joseph J. Doyle.

  • “Child Protection and Adult Crime: Using Investigator Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of Foster Care” by Joseph J. Doyle.

  • “Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections” by Patrick Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson and David Pozen.

  • “The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes” by Anthony Bald, Eric Chyn, Justine S. Hastings, and Margarita Machelett.

  • “Foster Care and Child Welfare” by Kelsey Roberts.

  • “Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care” by E. Jason Baron and Max Gross.

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