Explaining the disparity in placement instability among African-American and white children in child welfare: A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition |
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Authors: | E Michael FosterYu Bai |
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Institution: | a Gillings School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rosenau Hall, Campus Box# 7445, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7445, USAb Department of Health Policy and Administration, 504S Ford Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USAc Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, USA |
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Abstract: | African-American children in the child welfare system are at disproportionate risk of adverse experiences including placement instability. This article compares placement instability among African-American and white children in the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being and identifies mechanisms underlying racial disparities using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The type of initial out-of-home placements contributes significantly to the racial gap in placement instability. However a large amount of racial disparity remains unexplained. Additional factors, not captured by these analyses, apparently explain African-American's increased risk of placement instability. Predictors of placement instability differ between racial groups. Among African-Americans, older age, initial placement in a setting other than kinship care, and having a higher externalizing CBCL score at baseline are associated with greater instability. Among white children, however, only initial placement in a foster care setting predicted placement instability. |
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Keywords: | Racial differences Methodology Regression |
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