The Childonomics research project has developed an instrument that can help reflect on the long term social and economic return of investing in children and families within a given national or sub-national context. The instrument enables consideration of  the different types of costs of different s...

A number of researches have been conducted but with attention focused essentially on foster placement success using ex-foster children as a measuring rod. Most of such studies which include former foster children usually collect factual (usually quantitative) data to evaluate their pathways or achi...