PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rania Gihleb
AU  - Osea Giuntella
AU  - Ning Zhang
TI  - The Effect of Mandatory Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Foster Care Admissions
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.57.1.0918-9729R2
DP  - 2019 Dec 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0918-9729R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/12/03/jhr.57.1.0918-9729R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/12/03/jhr.57.1.0918-9729R2.full
AB  - This study estimates the effect of mandatory prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on child removals. To identify the effects of the programs on foster care admissions, we exploit the variation across states in the timing of adoption of operational and mandatory PDMPs using an event-study approach as well as standard difference-in-difference models. We find that operational PDMP did not have any significant effects on foster care admissions. However, the introduction of mandatory provisions reduced child removals by 10%. These effects are driven by the reductions in first removals and strongest among children of young caregivers and white children.