Returns on Investments? Public Expenditures on Children and Child Outcomes across the Fifty U.S. States • Kristen Harknett, Princeton University ; Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University ; Jay Bainbridge, Columbia University ; Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts ; Timothy Smeeding, Syracuse University

Food Stamp Benefits and Child Poverty in the United States: An Examination of Food Stamp Efficacy in Alleviating Child Poverty • Dean Jolliffe, U.S. Department of Agriculture (DOA) ; Craig G. Gundersen, U.S. Department of Agriculture (DOA) ; Laura Tiehen, U.S. Department of Agriculture (DOA) ; Joshua Winicki, U.S. Department of Agriculture (DOA)

Accounting for Recent Declines in Child Poverty: Effects of Changing Family Structure and Parental Employment since PRWORA • Daniel T. Lichter, Ohio State University ; Martha L. Crowley, Ohio State University

Social Security Receipt and Children's Economic Well-Being • Chad Newcomb, U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)