Essays in Child Welfare

We empirically explore the effect of attorney representation for foster care youth in abuse and neglect hearings on adoption outcomes. By exploiting temporal variation in the passage of state-level statutes that mandate all foster children have the right to representation, we find that child attorne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rashid, Amani
Other Authors: Waddell, Glen R.
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23741