Adoption Subsidy Dynamics

Explorations in the Analysis of State Administrative Data

Bibliographic Data

ID12460236
AuthorsRichard P Barth (0000-0001-5141-317X, School of Social Work, University of North Carolina , USA, corresponding author), Judith Wildfire (School of Social Work, University of North Carolina , USA), Chung Kwon Lee (School of Social Work, University of North Carolina , USA), Deborah Gibbs (0000-0001-6829-6395, RTI International)
Year2003
Volume7
Issue2
Pages3-27
Publication date2003-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdoption Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-6755 • E-ISSN: 1544-452X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j145v07n02_02
OpenAlexW1578275070
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

Adoptions subsidies represent a growing portion of federal, state, and local expenditures for child welfare services. Almost no previous analysis has been done with state level adoption subsidy data. This paper reports on analyses of subsidy data from North Carolina and California. These analyses indicate the significantly different way that subsidies are used in each state. In California, subsidies change markedly because they are used to purchase post-adoption services. In North Carolina, most post-adoption services are paid for through vendor payments. In California, the likelihood of subsidy increases are associated with family income, in unexpected ways. Common findings across states are that few families that begin to receive a subsidy will generally continue to receiving them until the child ages out of the program. Implications for policy and research are forwarded

Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Food stamps · Payment · Public economics · State (computer science · Subsidy · Vendor · Welfare · Child Welfare and Adoption · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Finance · Marketing

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