Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bullinger, Lindsey Rose

Titel

Infant safe havens

Ist Teil von

• Journal of policy analysis and management, 2024-07, Vol.43 (3), p.714-734

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken: Wiley Periodicals Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I estimate whether the ability to anonymously surrender an infant to a safe haven site such as a hospital, police station, or fire station in the United States affects child well‐being. By analyzing variation in state safe haven policies, I find safe haven laws significantly increase infant foster care entrance. I further find suggestive evidence of safe havens reducing infant deaths. The mortality effects are immediate but subside over time, implying infants have been relinquished when their alternative was not death from abuse or abandonment. Robustness checks and falsification tests support these findings.