Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment

By Jason M. Lindo, Jessamyn Schaller, Benjamin C. Hansen. Journal of Public Economics, 2018

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This paper examines the effect of labor market conditions—measured through unemployment, mass layoffs and predicted employment—on child abuse and neglect using county-level data from California. Using these indicators we separately estimate the effects of overall and gender-specific economic shocks. We find only modest evidence of a link between overall economic conditions and child maltreatment. However, analysis by gender reveals robust evidence that maltreatment decreases with indicators for male employment and increases with indicators for female employment. These opposite-signed effects are consistent with a theoretical framework that builds on family-time-use models and is supported by analysis of time-use data.

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Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19 (2020, unknown): “Changes in economic opportunities and uncertainty, increased parental time at home during unemployment, and emotional cues have all been found to impact the prevalence of domestic violence (Aizer and Bo, 2009; Aizer, 2010; Anderberg et al., 2016; Lindo et al., 2018; Card and Dahl, 2011).”
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men (2017, background): “…adverse local economic shocks reduce teen birthrates and sexual activity, while raising contraceptive use and abortion, while Page et al. (2007) and Lindo et al. (2013) document adverse impacts 2 shrink the pool of economically secure young adult men and erode traditional household arrange- ments.”