Appendix Table 3.
Relationship of Child Welfare outcomes to predictors of foster care maintenance rates in 2008.
| Investigation rate | Maltreatment while in care | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployment | 4.065 | 3.493 | 0.0569 | 0.0573 | ||||||
| % Minority children | −0.359 | −0.404 | 0.000551 | −0.00175 | ||||||
| Poverty rate | 1.944 | 2.359 | 0.0263 | 0.0404* | ||||||
| Urbanicity | 0.0496 | 0.0602 | 0.0065 | 0.00715 | ||||||
| Partial Republican Control of State Government | −0.734 | 14.31 | −0.104 | 0.0628 | ||||||
| Republican Controlled State Government | −17.02** | −4.545 | 0.00687 | 0.0863 | ||||||
| Log real per foster child Title IV B funding | −17.82** | −13.73 | −0.181 | 0.0197 | ||||||
| Log real per foster child Title IV E funding | −0.745 | 0.603 | 0.0764 | −0.0371 | ||||||
| TANF*FMAP | −0.107** | −0.0769 | −0.00121 | 0.000355 | ||||||
| Share of state population on TANF | 6.837* | 4.385 | −0.0413 | −0.226** | ||||||
| Real per capita tax revenue | 1.078 | 2.377 | 0.00284 | 0.00705 | ||||||
| 2nd Title IVE eligibility review | 12.43* | 6.569 | 0.243** | 0.250** | ||||||
| Lawsuit filed | 2.911 | 6.514 | 0.122 | 0.142 | ||||||
| Settlement reached | −2.339 | −2.495 | 0.479* | 0.407 | ||||||
| Constant | 14.85 | 51.30*** | 6.332 | 43.14*** | −34.21 | −0.636 | 0.481*** | 0.21 | 0.266*** | −0.813 |
| Observations | 50 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 49 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 48 |
| R-squared | 0.134 | 0.087 | 0.178 | 0.082 | 0.404 | 0.166 | 0.021 | 0.051 | 0.378 | 0.544 |
| Stability In Care | Timeliness and Stability of Reunification | |||||||||
| Unemployment | 0.349 | 0.283 | −1.704 | −0.697 | ||||||
| % Minority children | −0.0645 | 0.0931 | 0.164 | 0.152 | ||||||
| Poverty rate | −0.153 | −0.819 | 0.916 | −0.0248 | ||||||
| Urbanicity | 0.158 | 0.0674 | −0.241 | −0.216 | ||||||
| Partial Republican Control of State Government | −1.755 | −2.12 | 4.472 | 5.457 | ||||||
| Republican Controlled State Government | 0.912 | 0.463 | −8.212 | −8.514 | ||||||
| Log real per foster child Title IV B funding | −2.531 | −9.288 | 13.38** | 19.00*** | ||||||
| Log real per foster child Title IV E funding | 4.313 | 5.126 | −12.02** | −13.73*** | ||||||
| TANF*FMAP | −0.0127 | −0.0362 | −0.0374 | −0.0222 | ||||||
| Share of state population on TANF | 0.0713 | 1.926 | 2.064 | 2.993 | ||||||
| Real per capita tax revenue | −0.508 | −1.485 | 0.574 | 1.088 | ||||||
| 2nd Title IVE eligibility review | −3.093 | −4.899 | −0.152 | 3.906 | ||||||
| Lawsuit filed | −8.05 | −17.45** | 9.857 | 22.12** | ||||||
| Settlement reached | 8.502 | 14.97 | −11.73 | −16.94* | ||||||
| Constant | 83.52*** | 93.15*** | 91.01*** | 93.84*** | 82.02*** | 121.4*** | 112.6*** | 152.1*** | 113.3*** | 171.2*** |
| Observations | 50 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 49 | 50 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 49 |
| R-squared | 0.039 | 0.01 | 0.036 | 0.056 | 0.208 | 0.09 | 0.083 | 0.253 | 0.022 | 0.453 |
*
p < 0.1
**
p < 0.05, and
***
p < 0.01.