(Press-News.org) MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request.
A new study, conducted in collaboration between researchers at Michigan State University and Central Michigan University, found that public spending on social safety net programs and on education spending each independently impact high school graduation rates, which are a key predictor of health and well-being later in life.
The study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, tested whether public financing for education and social safety net programs that aim to help improve the lives of low-income people affected high school graduation rates over a seven-year period. The study used data on high school graduation rates from all U.S. public elementary and secondary schools, public spending on safety net programs and education in each state, and characteristics of schools and counties.
The researchers found that high school graduation rates were significantly affected by both social safety net program spending and public education. In addition, these positive impacts are larger for children belonging to historically underserved student groups.
The study’s findings have straightforward implications for improving graduation rates in public schools.
“Assuming the other form of spending remains at average levels, we found that a one percentage point increase in high school graduation rates is associated with an additional investment of $437 per child in social safety net spending or $720 in educational spending,” said Ignacio Acevedo-Polakovich, co-author of the study and associate professor in MSU’s Department of Psychology. “Our findings underscore the importance of adequately financing both high-quality public education systems and social safety net programs.”
High school graduation is a key predictor of public health and well-being. Individuals who dropped out of high school have an annual income that is on average $10,000 less than high school graduates and over $36,000 less than those with a bachelor’s degree. High school graduates have a reduced risk of health conditions later in life and an increased life expectancy.
By Shelly DeJong
Read on MSUToday
###
Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 165 years. One of the world's leading research universities, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery to make a better, safer, healthier world for all while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 400 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.
For MSU news on the web, go to MSUToday or twitter.com/MSUnews.
END
Want higher graduation rates? New study shows public spending on families is key
2023-11-10
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
MSU researcher solves sperm mystery, providing insight on infertility
2023-11-10
MSU has a satellite uplink/LTN TV studio and Comrex line for radio interviews upon request.
Video and Images
Michigan State University researchers have solved the mystery of a poorly understood sperm structure called the cytoplasmic droplet, or CD. The CD is an expanded cytoplasm — watery, gel-like cell contents enclosed by cell membrane — found close to the head, at the neck of the sperm, in all mammals, including humans. This new genetic model is the first of its kind.
Despite ...
Are consumers ready for robots to show up at their doorstep?
2023-11-10
With Amazon aiming to make 10,000 deliveries with drones in Europe this year and Walmart planning to expand its drone delivery services to an additional 60,000 homes this year in the states, companies are investing more research and development funding into drone delivery, But are consumers ready to accept this change as the new normal?
Northwestern University’s Mobility and Behavior Lab, led by Amanda Stathopoulos, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, wanted to know if consumers were ready for robots to replace delivery drivers, in the form ...
Researchers adapt health system COVID-19 collaboration to track near-real-time trends in visits for substance use
2023-11-10
Minneapolis, Minn. – In a recently released study, researchers at Hennepin Healthcare and other Minnesota health systems describe how a COVID-19 collaboration across Minnesota health systems was adapted to monitor near-real-time trends in substance use–related hospital and emergency department (ED) visits.
The Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium (MNEHRC), developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, repurposed its surveillance methods to identify health disparities and inform equity-driven approaches to the overdose epidemic.
MNEHRC’s study, "Minnesota Data Sharing May Be Model for Near-Real-Time Tracking of Drug Overdose Hospital ...
RIT’s Carichino receives National Science Foundation LEAPS-MPS award
2023-11-10
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Lucia Carichino, assistant professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, has received a Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The award funds Carichino’s research in computational modeling of the interaction between the eye and a contact lens. Specifically, Carichino is focusing on orthokeratology (ortho-k) lenses that help reduce myopic progression in kids and young adults. She aims to develop a mathematical model that will ...
A closer look at rebel T cells
2023-11-10
LA JOLLA, CA—Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are investigating a talented type of T cell.
Most T cells only work in the person who made them. Your T cells fight threats by responding to molecular fragments that belong to a pathogen—but only when these molecules are bound with markers that come from your own tissues. Your influenza-fighting T cells can't help your neighbor, and vice versa.
"However, we all have T cells that do not obey these rules," says LJI Professor and President Emeritus Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D. "One of these cell types is mucosal-associated invariant ...
Low-intensity fires reduce wildfire risk by 60%, according to study by Columbia and Stanford researchers
2023-11-10
There is no longer any question of how to prevent high-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires that have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S., according to a new study by researchers at Stanford and Columbia universities. The analysis, published Nov. 10 in Science Advances, reveals that low-intensity burning, such as controlled or prescribed fires, managed wildfires, and tribal cultural burning, can dramatically reduce the risk of devastating fires for years at a time. The findings – some of the first to rigorously quantify the value of low-intensity fire – come while Congress is reassessing the U.S. Forest Service’s ...
Unlocking the secrets of spin with high-harmonic probes
2023-11-10
Deep within every piece of magnetic material, electrons dance to the invisible tune of quantum mechanics. Their spins, akin to tiny atomic tops, dictate the magnetic behavior of the material they inhabit. This microscopic ballet is the cornerstone of magnetic phenomena, and it's these spins that a team of JILA researchers—headed by JILA Fellows and University of Colorado Boulder professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn—has learned to control with remarkable precision, potentially redefining the future of electronics and data storage.
In a new Science Advances ...
University of Minnesota Medical School researchers investigate cause of cardiomyopathy in coronary artery disease using cardiac MRI
2023-11-10
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (11/10/2023) — Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School examining the cause of cardiomyopathy discovered one out of every six patients with coronary artery disease had non-ischemic or dual cardiomyopathy.
The findings of this study were published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Circulation, the flagship journal of the American Heart Association.
Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle. Patients with coronary artery disease can have cardiomyopathy from heart muscle ...
Heart of Gold: Bath student team wins world Heart Hackathon competition
2023-11-10
Student engineers from the University of Bath are on top of the world after winning an international competition to design an artificial heart.
Team Bath Heart took top prize at the grand final of the first-ever Heart Hackathon, which was held in Texas at the end of October.
Six members of the team presented their device to global experts in artificial heart technologies, competing against teams from Australia, the United States, Sweden, New Zealand, Romania and Egypt.
The ‘total artificial heart’ ...
Cleveland Clinic research links sleep apnea to increased risk of atrial fibrillation
2023-11-10
New research from Cleveland Clinic has identified a link between sleep apnea and the development of atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder.
Published in JAHA, the study of over 42,000 patients found that sleep-related hypoxia - or low oxygen levels during sleep - is associated with a higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation over time. The study found this risk persisted even after accounting for lung function, suggesting sleep-related hypoxia independently increases atrial fibrillation risk separate from any underlying lung disease.
Atrial fibrillation causes an irregular ...