Using admin data and a difference-in-differences design, I find that each extra year in foster care raises college enrollment 6% and employment at ages 24–26 by 4%. Effects are also larger for youth with fewer outside options without extended foster care.

In 2012, California introduced extended foster care, creating a natural experiment to study the causal effects of additional time in foster care.

I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.

In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.

If only it were true, Overleaf.