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Safer in School? Compulsory Schooling Reduces Maltreatment and Associated Harms

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  • Dzulkipli, Adam A
  • Black, Nicole
  • Johnston, David
  • Segal, Leonie

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Abused and neglected children are at extreme risk of school dropout, poor health, and destructive behaviours, yet evidence on interventions that prevent maltreatment and its harms is limited. We use an Australian education reform to examine whether additional compulsory schooling improves maltreatment-related outcomes. Using administrative records on all children and regression-discontinuity techniques, we find the reform reduced maltreatment reported to Child Protection Services (CPS). Among adolescents with past CPS involvement, it also reduced emergency healthcare, pregnancies, and abortions. Our findings suggest school attendance can improve child safety and reduce maltreatment-related harms, with an incapacitation effect as the likely mechanism.

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  • Dzulkipli, Adam A & Black, Nicole & Johnston, David & Segal, Leonie, 2022. "Safer in School? Compulsory Schooling Reduces Maltreatment and Associated Harms," SocArXiv at62c_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:at62c_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/at62c_v1
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