ArticleHealth economics2022
The lasting consequences of childhood sexual abuse on human capital and economic well-being.
Article in Health economics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Outcomes of image-based sexual abuse among young people: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Evaluation of 24-Month Effects of the Close to Home Program on Youth Sexual and Dating Violence Across 22 Communities in California: Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Cluster-Matched Control Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Childhood Sexual Abuse and Rates of Loneliness in Adulthood.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Sexual, dating, and bullying-related forms of violence targeting LGBTQ+ youth among a population-based sample of California high school students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Exploring Patterns of Men's Self-Reported Sexual Behaviours, Feelings, and Interests Towards Children.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- Estimating the associations between women's maltreatment in childhood and inflammatory biomarker levels prior to and during pregnancy.PloS one · 2025Article
- Daily stress reactivity and risk appraisal mediates childhood parental abuse predicting adulthood psychopathology severity: An 18-year longitudinal mediation analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Community case studies: an interpretative phenomenological analysis on sexual abuse in urban Chennai.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Associations between exposure to sexual abuse, substance use, adverse health outcomes, and use of youth health services among Norwegian adolescents.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The lasting consequences of childhood sexual abuse on human capital and economic well-being.Health economics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Childhood sexual abuse is a prevalent problem, yet understanding of later-in-life outcomes is limited due to unobservable determinants. I examine impacts on human capital and economic well-being by estimating likely ranges around causal effects, using a nationally representative U.S. sample. Findings suggest that childhood sexual abuse leads to lower educational attainment and worse labor market outcomes. Results are robust to partial identification methods applying varying assumptions about unobservable confounding, using information on confounding from observables including other types of child abuse. I show that associations between childhood sexual abuse and education outcomes and earnings are at least as large for males as for females. Childhood sexual abuse by someone other than a caregiver is as influential or more so than caregiver sexual abuse in predicting worse outcomes. Considering the societal burden of childhood sexual abuse, findings could inform policy and resource allocation decisions for development and implementation of best practices for prevention and support.
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