Abstract
The arrival of a child profoundly alters the life-course for men. Yet, children could change men's lives not only by arriving in them, but also by departing from them. In this article, I test how one such departure-foster care placement-affects men's labor market attachment, and in so doing I provide a novel parallel to existing research on how fatherhood affects men, which focuses almost exclusively on a child's arrival. Using population panel data from Denmark that include all first time fathers whose children were placed in foster care from 1995-2005, I find that having a child placed in foster care is associated with up to a 12 percentage point increase in welfare dependency. This result persists in analyses that control for individual and family level fixed effects, unobserved heterogeneity, and selection into having a child placed in foster care.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2013 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | Population Association of America Annual Meeting - New Orleans, LA, United States Duration: 11 Apr 2013 → 13 Apr 2013 |
Conference
| Conference | Population Association of America Annual Meeting |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New Orleans, LA |
| Period | 11/04/2013 → 13/04/2013 |