State-Level Spending on Children Associated with Unequal Benefits to School Readiness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine associations between state-level public investments in programming for children and parents' reports of their children's kindergarten readiness.

Methods

We use regression approaches with publicly available, nationally representative data to examine how time and state variation in public spending on children relates to parents' concerns about children's development. We link data on annual state-level spending on health and early learning from the Urban Institute's State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset and the National Institute for Early Education Research to child-level data from the 2003/2004, 2007/2008, and 2011/2012 waves of the National Survey of Children's Health (NCHS), focusing on a subsample of parents with one or more children under age six (

SUBMITTER: Morrissey TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12006267 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature