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Re: Journal Article - Are Public Expenditures Associated with Better ChildOutcomes

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<DIV>Sandra, have you seen the article out yet? &nbsp;</DIV>
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<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>&nbsp;<BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Sandra Slappey &lt;SSlappey@caliber.com&gt;<BR>To: Child Maltreatment Researchers &lt;CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu&gt;<BR>Sent: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:57:56 -0500<BR>Subject: Journal Article - Are Public Expenditures Associated with Better Child Outcomes <BR><BR>
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<DIV class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_a3ee541e-e410-4e3a-8248-df6df0fa90d4><PRE><TT>I thought this article might be of interest to this group - the journal should 
be out next month.


Something new in Child Welfare: 
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
Volume 5 Issue 1 Page 103 - December 2005
Are Public Expenditures Associated with Better Child Outcomes in the U.S.? A 
Comparison across 50 States
Kristen Harknett
Irwin Garfinkel
Jay Bainbridge
Timothy Smeeding
Nancy Folbre
Sara McLanahan6
Our article utilizes variation across the 50 U.S. states to examine the 
relationship between public expenditures on children and child outcomes. We find 
that public expenditures on children are related to better child outcomes across 
a wide range of indicators including measures of child mortality, elementary 
school test scores, and adolescent behavioral outcomes. States that spend more 
on children have better child outcomes even after taking into account a number 
of potential confounding influences. Our results are robust to numerous 
variations in model specifications and to the inclusion of proxies for 
unobserved characteristics of states. Our sensitivity analyses suggest that the 
results we present may be conservative, yet our findings reveal a strong 
relationship between state generosity toward children and children's well-being.


Sandra Slappey, MSW
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