We conduct the first quantitative analysis of “blind removals,” an increasingly popular reform that seeks to reduce the over-representation of Black children in foster care by eliminating biases in the removal decisions of investigators. We first show that over-representation in most foster care systems is driven by Black children being substantially more likely than White children to be investigated for maltreatment to begin with. Conditional on initial rates of investigation, investigators remove White and Black children similarly. Second, we find no evidence that blind removals impacted the already small racial disparities in the removal decision, but they substantially increased time to removal.

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推动儿童福利中的种族平等：盲目驱逐能否减少不成比例？

我们对“盲目搬迁”进行了首次定量分析，这是一项越来越受欢迎的改革，旨在通过消除调查人员搬迁决定中的偏见来减少寄养中黑人儿童的过多比例。我们首先表明，大多数寄养系统中的代表人数过多是由于黑人儿童比白人儿童更有可能因虐待而受到调查。以初始调查率为条件，调查人员以类似方式移除白人和黑人儿童。其次，我们没有发现任何证据表明盲目移除影响了移除决定中本已很小的种族差异，但它们大大增加了移除时间。