Unconditional Prenatal Income Supplement and Birth Outcomes

Brownell, Marni; Chartier, Mariette; Nickel, Nathan; Château, Dan; Martens, Patricia J.; Sarkar, Joykrishna; Burland, Elaine; Jutte, Douglas P.; Taylor, Carole; Santos, Robert; Katz, Alan

doi:10.1542/peds.2015-2992

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“…Only one, is ongoing; a contemporary policy from Manitoba, Canada that provides a prenatal cash benefit to pregnant mothers on social assistance 24. Another was an experimental income supplementation programme that occurred in Gary, Indiana during the early 1970s, in which low-income residents of the town were randomised to receive a negative income tax intervention 23…”

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Do cash transfer programmes yield better health in the first year of life? A systematic review linking low-income/middle-income and high-income contexts

2018

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“…Among quasi-experimental studies, difference-in-differences was the most common analytic approach 18 19 29. Studies also used propensity score matching,24 instrumental variable analysis20 and more basic forms of regression 21 22…”

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Do cash transfer programmes yield better health in the first year of life? A systematic review linking low-income/middle-income and high-income contexts

2018

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“…We end by praising HMS for trying to test the effect of a plausibly exogenous increase in income on infant health. The EITC represents a sizable transfer to working single women with children that may improve birth outcomes (Brownell et al, 2016). In systematically reviewing their evidence, however, we conclude that claims of a causal association between the EITC and low birth weight cannot be drawn from HMS's design and data.…”

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“…The EITC represents a sizable transfer to working single women with children that may improve birth outcomes (Brownell et al, 2016). The EITC represents a sizable transfer to working single women with children that may improve birth outcomes (Brownell et al, 2016).…”

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The earned income tax credit and infant health revisited

Dench

Joyce

2019

Health Economics

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Hoynes, Miller, and Simon (2015), henceforth HMS, report that the national expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is associated with decreases in low birth weight. We question their findings. HMS's difference-indifferences estimates are unidentified in some comparisons, while failed placebo tests undermine others. Their effects lack a plausible mechanism as the association between the EITC and prenatal smoking also fails placebo tests.We contend that the waning of the crack epidemic is a possible confound, but we show that any number of policies directed at poor women also eliminate the effect of the EITC when aggregated to the national level. Identifying small, causal effects of a national policy at a single point in time is exceedingly challenging. KEYWORDSdifference-in-differences, earned income tax credit, low birth weight

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“…23 25 The repository data have been validated and used extensively for maternal and child health research studies. [36][37][38][39][40] Identifying opportunities for data collection at routine vaccination visits We began by identifying infant vaccination visits as a consistent and opportune routine point of contact with the healthcare system, whereby population-based information on infant feeding could be collected. In Manitoba, more than 90% of infants complete their 2-month vaccination schedules and 78% complete their 1 year vaccination schedules.…”

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Protocol for establishing an infant feeding database linkable with population-based administrative data: a prospective cohort study in Manitoba, Canada

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IntroductionBreast feeding is associated with many health benefits for mothers and infants. But despite extensive public health efforts to promote breast feeding, many mothers do not achieve their own breastfeeding goals; and, inequities in breastfeeding rates persist between high and low-income mother–infant dyads. Developing targeted programme to support breastfeeding dyads and reduce inequities between mothers of different socioeconomic status are a priority for public health practitioners and health policy decision-makers; however, many jurisdictions lack the timely and comprehensive population-level data on infant-feeding practices required to monitor trends in breastfeeding initiation and duration. This protocol describes the establishment of a population-based infant-feeding database in the Canadian province of Manitoba, providing opportunities to develop and evaluate breastfeeding support programme.Methods and analysisRoutinely collected administrative health data on mothers’ infant-feeding practices will be captured during regular vaccination visits using the Teleform fax tool, which converts handwritten information to an electronic format. The infant-feeding data will be linked to the Manitoba Population Research Data Repository, a comprehensive collection of population-based information spanning health, education and social services domains. The linkage will allow us to answer research questions about infant-feeding practices and to evaluate how effective current initiatives promoting breast feeding are.Ethics and disseminationApprovals have been granted by the Health Research Ethics Board at the University of Manitoba. Our integrative knowledge translation approach will involve disseminating findings through government and community briefings, presenting at academic conferences and publishing in scientific journals.

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Unconditional Prenatal Income Supplement and Birth Outcomes

Cited by 59 publications

References 80 publications

Do cash transfer programmes yield better health in the first year of life? A systematic review linking low-income/middle-income and high-income contexts

Do cash transfer programmes yield better health in the first year of life? A systematic review linking low-income/middle-income and high-income contexts

The earned income tax credit and infant health revisited

Protocol for establishing an infant feeding database linkable with population-based administrative data: a prospective cohort study in Manitoba, Canada

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