Correction

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Social spending at the state-level in the neoliberal era: A renaissance of federalism in Mexico?

Article title: Social spending at the state-level in the neoliberal era: A renaissance of federalism in Mexico?

Author: Anahely Medrano

Journal: Regional & Federal Studies

Biometrics: Volume 33, Number 3, pages 371–396

DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1982703

The above article has been published online with mistakes in the calculation of social spending. The changes to the text are detailed here. Tables 2–4 and Figures 1–6 were also corrected accordingly.

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Page 12, first para.,	The growth of social expenditure mirrored the dramatic increase of total expenditure at state level during those years, as Figure 1 shows.	The growth of social expenditure mirrored the increase of total expenditure at state level until 2014, then slightly declined and remained stable until 2018, as Figure 1 shows.
Page 12, first para.,	However, the average percentage of growth of social spending per capita from 2000 to 2018 was lower (12.8%) than the total expenditure (15.8%).	However, the average percentage of growth of social spending per capita from 2000 to 2018 was lower (4.8%) than the total expenditure (5.3%).
Page 12, second para.,	Table 3 shows that, on average, social spending per capita was $6439.7 (overall SD = $3885) with a within standard deviation ($3680.3) higher than the between standard deviation ($1592), which indicates a greater variation with the states’ average per capita spending over time than across states. In general, the dispersion in social spending per capita diminished from 2000 (M = $1394.3, SD = 622.2) to 2018 ($12808.3, SD = $3681);[…]	Table 3 shows that, on average, social spending per capita was $5972.1 (overall SD = $2239.4) with a within standard deviation ($1735.5) higher than the between standard deviation ($1419.8), which indicates a greater variation with the states’ average per capita spending over time than across states. In general, the dispersion in social spending per capita diminished from 2000 (M = $3265.9, SD = 1457.4; DER = 44.6%) to 2018 ($7338.5, SD = $2371.2; DER = 32.3%);[…]
Pages 13–14	State social spending as a proportion of GDP increased on average from 1.7% in 2000 to 8.1% in 2018. As in the case of the previous indicator, social spending as a proportion of GDP varied slightly more within states than across states over time from 2000 to 2018 (M = 5.8%, within SD = 3.2%, between SD = 3%), […]	State social spending as a proportion of GDP increased on average from 3.8% in 2000 to 6.5% in 2018. Social spending as a proportion of GDP varied more across states than within states over time from 2000 to 2018 (M = 6.0%, within SD = 1.7%, between SD = 2.9%), […]
Page 15, third para., l	However, when the most remarkable outlier state (Morelos) is excluded from the dataset, the within standard deviation (10.3%) is higher than the between standard deviation (8.2%).	However, when the most remarkable outlier state (Morelos) is excluded from the dataset, the within standard deviation (8.9%) is higher than the between standard deviation (7.9%).
Pages 18–19	As can be observed in Table 5 and Figure 5, average total social spending per capita as a proportion of total state expenditure was $11067.6 (overall SD = $3361.6), and education was notably bigger ($7013.2, overallSD = $2429.9) than healthcare ($1924.5, overall SD = $739.9) and other social spending per capita ($2383.2, overall SD = $2168). Education, […] (35.6%, overall SD = 10.8%), also registered the highest growth in the period. On average, other social spending was the second biggest social expenditure category as a proportion of total expenditure (9.6%, overall SD = 3.7%) and healthcare was very similar at 10.5% (overall SD = 6.2%).	As can be observed in Table 5 and Figure 5, average total social spending per capita was $7533.3 (overall SD = $2143.1), and education was notably bigger ($4751.2, overallSD = $1537.9) than healthcare ($1320.1, overall SD = $485.9) and other social spending per capita ($1522, overall SD = $1279.3). Education,[…] (35.7%, overall SD = 11.7%), also registered the highest growth in the period. On average, other social spending was the second biggest social expenditure category as a proportion of total expenditure (9.9%, overall SD = 3.8%) and healthcare was very similar at 12.8% (overall SD = 12.5%).

The article has now been corrected in the online version.