지방자치단체의 아동복지예산결정요인에 관한 연구: 광역시 자치구를 중심으로

초록

The purpose of this study is to explore the determinants of child welfare expenditures in local governments. For this, this study collected the financial data for child welfare budgets from 67 local governments in Seoul special city and 6 metropolitan cities from 2010 to 2014. The pooled cross-sectional time-series regression (TSCSREG) was adopted for the analysis. The results showed that the level of child welfare expenditures per child in local governments were relatively very low and were shown great variation between governments. In addition, looking the determinants of child welfare expenditures, the most important factors were political competition during election periods, fiscal autonomy in local governments, and the level of financial supports from central governments. In other words, the child welfare expenditures were not based on the need of children but depended on the political competition and financial abilities in local governments.Based on the results, several policy alternatives to improve financial abilities in local governments were suggested

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