Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. Yet, there is little research looking at these causal impacts; neither is there much empirical...

A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. In this paper, I show that planned treatment is strongly positively associated with treatment outcomes. In the short term, teenagers with planned treatment are less likely to experience a...

Die drückende Finanznot vieler Kommunen lässt Wissenschaft und Praxis nach einer grundsätzlichen Lösung der Schuldenproblematik suchen. Dabei rückt zunehmend das Insolvenzverfahren für Kommunen in den Fokus. Es wird als eher marktwirtschaftlichautonom wirkender Lösungsmechanismus den...

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...