State By State Spending On Kids

Context

How much are states spending on kids?

Content

This dataset provides a comprehensive accounting of public spending on children from 1997 through 2016. It draws on the US Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, as well as several federal and other non census sources, to capture state-by-state spending on education, income security, health, and other areas. The data were assembled by Julia Isaacs, Eleanor Lauderback, and Erica Greenberg of the Urban Institute, working in collaboration with Margot Jackson of Brown University for her study of public spending on children and class gaps in child development. This work has been supported (in part) by grant #83-18-23 from the Russell Sage Foundation and (in part) by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under award #R03HD097421.

Acknowledgements

Citations:
Isaacs, Julia, Eleanor Lauderback, and Erica Greenberg. 2020. State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/state-state-spending-kids-dataset. Data originally collected from multiple sources, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.