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| 100 | 1 | _aCooper, Ryan. | |
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_aEffects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare: _bEvidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado / _cRyan Cooper, Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Andrés P. Hojman. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2023. |
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_aNBER working paper series _vno. w30974 |
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| 500 | _aFebruary 2023. | ||
| 520 | 3 | _aChildren spend years in foster care, and there are concerns that bureaucratic hurdles contribute to unnecessarily long stays. In a novel approach to policy making, the Chilean government randomized the introduction of a program aimed at reducing these delays in order to evaluate its effects on child well-being. Mi Abogado (My Lawyer) provides legal aid and social services to foster children living in institutions. Using administrative data linked across government registries, we find the program reduced the length of stay in foster care with no increase in subsequent placement, resulting in savings that are substantially greater than the cost of the program. The program also led to a reduction in criminal justice involvement and an improvement in school attendance. The results demonstrate that investment in the quality of foster care services can improve child well-being. | |
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| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | _aDoyle, Joseph J, Jr. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aHojman, Andrés P. | |
| 710 | 2 | _aNational Bureau of Economic Research. | |
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_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w30974. |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w30974 |
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_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30974 |
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