Human Capital, Child Well-being, and Child Protection

Fred Wulczyn, Arno Parolini, and Scott Huhr | 2018
In this paper, we propose a framework that adds human capital and human capital formation to the list of outcomes child welfare agencies think about when their attention turns to child well-being. Human capital and human capital formation, we argue, offer a conceptual language for bringing greater focus to well-being as an inherently developmental construct. The framework also provides a useful guide to research.
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