Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

Hoynes, Hilary; Miller, Douglas L.; Simon, Dávid

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“…34 Surprisingly little quasiexperimental work tries to estimate the e¤ect of income on child health outcomes. An exception is the study by Hoynes, Miller, and Simon (2014), which …nds that $1,000 of EITC income (in 2000 prices) increases by 8 grams the average birth weight of infants born to non-Hispanic White mothers. 35 Given the di¤erent nature of our prize shocks, we have no way to compare our estimated e¤ect sizes with those in the literature that is immune to criticism: which comparison is appropriate depends on the underlying theory of how income impacts children's outcomes.…”

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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factorssuch as the number of lottery tickets -conditional on which the prizes were randomly assigned. In adults, we …nd no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception of a small reduction in the consumption of mental health drugs. Our estimates allow us to rule out e¤ects on 10-year mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we …nd that wealth increases children's health care utilization in the years following the lottery and may also reduce obesity risk. The e¤ects on most other child outcomes, which include drug consumption, scholastic performance, and skills, can usually be bounded to a tight interval around zero. Overall, our …ndings suggest that correlations observed in a-uent, developed countries between (i) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not re ‡ect a causal e¤ect of wealth.

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“…Was stress reduced because rent could be paid on time? Research on the Earned Income Tax Credit in the United States suggests that increased income to low wage earners results in better nutritional intake for women in general, 63 decreased smoking for pregnant women, 60,62,92 and more prenatal care. Findings of increased infant birth weight associated with the Food Stamp Program also suggest that prenatal nutritional intake plays a role.…”

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Unconditional Prenatal Income Supplement and Birth Outcomes

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“…The credit has been found to lead to increases in infant health (Baker 2008;Baughman 2012;Hoynes, Miller, and Simon 2015;Strully et al 2010), maternal health (Evans and Garthwaite 2014), children's cognitive outcomes (Dahl and Lochner 2012;Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff 2011) and educational attainment (Michelmore 2013;Manoli and Turner 2014). These are generally interpreted as income effects, though it is possible that a portion of each effect is directly related to increased maternal employment.…”

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Tax Policy Toward Low-Income Families

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Rothstein²

2016

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Abstract:In this paper, we review the most prominent provision of the federal income tax code that targets low-income tax filers, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as well as the structurally similar Child Tax Credit (CTC). We frame the paper around what we see as the programs' goals: distributional, promoting work, and limiting administrative and compliance costs. We review what is known about program impacts and distributional consequences under current law, drawing on simulations from the Tax Policy Center. We conclude that the EITC is quite successful in meeting its three goals. In contrast, most of the benefits of the CTC go to higher income households. In addition to analyzing current law, we assess possible reforms that would reach groups -for the EITC, those without children; for the CTC, those with very low earningswho are largely missed under current policy. 1 hoynes@berkeley.edu and rothstein@berkeley.edu. We are very grateful to staff at the Tax Policy Center, and particularly Elaine Maag for providing us with simulations of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center Microsimulation model. We thank Claire Montialoux, Audrey Tiew and Darian Woods for excellent research assistance. Portions of this paper draw heavily on Nichols and Rothstein (2015) and Hoynes and Patel (2015). We are grateful for helpful comments to

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Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

Cited by 380 publications

References 65 publications

Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Unconditional Prenatal Income Supplement and Birth Outcomes

Tax Policy Toward Low-Income Families

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