The Hidden Cost of Foster-Care: New Evidence on the Inter-Generational Transmission of Foster-Care Experiences | Zendy

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The Hidden Cost of Foster-Care: New Evidence on the Inter-Generational Transmission of Foster-Care Experiences

Author(s) -

Mikkel Mertz,

Signe Hald Andersen

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the british journal of social work

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1468-263X

pISSN - 0045-3102

DOI - 10.1093/bjsw/bcw132

Subject(s) - foster care , descriptive statistics , foster parents , child care , test (biology) , psychology , probit , control (management) , nursing , medicine , economics , statistics , econometrics , paleontology , mathematics , biology , management

This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of foster care, to test the extent to which an overrepresentation of children of foster care alumni in a group of children in care remains after controlling for parents’ additional resources (such as criminal history, crime and labor market attachment). For this purpose we use administrative data from Statistics Denmark, which we analyse using simple descriptive statistics and probit models. Results show, that while children of foster care alumni are approximately 10 times as likely as other children to experience foster care, this overrepresentation is halved when we control for parental resources.

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