TY - BOOK AU - Lindo,Jason M. AU - Schaller,Jessamyn AU - Hansen,Benjamin ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Caution! Men Not at Work: Gender-Specific Labor Market Conditions and Child Maltreatment T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - April 2013; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - 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 UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w18994 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18994 ER -