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100			_aMoullin, Sophie _913328
245			_aThe effects of small unconditional cash transfers on child abuse and neglect in early childhood : _bevidence from New Zealand _cSophie Moullin and Barry Milne
260			_bElsevier, _c2025
500			_aChild Abuse & Neglect, 2025, 161: 107260:
520			_aChild abuse and neglect are consistently found at higher rates in families facing low income and income insecurity, and in contexts with lower public spending on children and families. However, child abuse and neglect, particularly as measured through engagement with child protective services, has deep intergenerational and institutional causes, casting doubt on the effectiveness of income transfers alone to reduce it. In 2018, Aotearoa New Zealand introduced a “Families Package” of policies, including a small, unconditional cash transfer to mothers with children under three years of age, which increased family income by 5% on average. Using four years of national administrative child protective services and hospitalization data and difference-in-difference models, we find that the introduction of the Families Package was associated with a 19% (OR: 0.81, CI: 0.80-0.81, p.value=0.003) reduction in overall referrals to family services in nonurgent cases of suspected maltreatment, without significant changes in urgent cases. For M¯aori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, and those for whom the child protective services had recorded notifications of concern for older (half) siblings, the reduction was 26% (OR: 0.74, CI: 0.61-0.91, p.value=0.003). The Families Package likely also reduced neglect in single-mother families (OR 0.6, CI: 0.38 - 0.93, p.value=0.022). We find no statistically significant effects, however, on social worker findings of emotional or physical abuse, or for hospitalizations for traumatic brain injury. (Authors' abstract). Record #8896
650			_aCHILD ABUSE _9103
650			_aCHILD NEGLECT _9114
650		4	_9116 _aCHILD POVERTY
650			_aECONOMIC ASPECTS _9213
650			_aINTERVENTION _9326
650			_aMĀORI _9357
650			_aSOCIAL SERVICES _9555
651			_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
700			_aMilne, Barry _913329
773	0		_tChild Abuse & Neglect, 2025, 161: 107260:
830			_aSocArXiv Papers _913330
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107260 _zDOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107260 (Open access)
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE _hnews130