Short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on children's physical and mental health

Duffee, 2016, Poverty and child health in the United States, Pediatrics, 137 Shonkoff, 2016, Capitalizing on advances in science to reduce the health consequences of early childhood adversity, JAMA Pediatr, 170, 1003, 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.1559 Najman, 2009, The impact of episodic and chronic poverty on child cognitive development, J Pediatr, 154, 284, 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.08.052 Shonkoff, 2012, The lifelong effects of early childhood adversity and toxic stress, Pediatrics, 129, e232, 10.1542/peds.2011-2663 2009 Chetty, 2013, Using differences in knowledge across neighborhoods to uncover the impacts of the EITC on earnings, Am Econ Rev, 103, 2683, 10.1257/aer.103.7.2683 Dahl, 2009, Stepping stone or dead end? The effect of the EITC on earnings growth, Natl Tax J, 62, 62, 10.17310/ntj.2009.2.06 Noonan, 2007, Examining the impact of welfare reform, labor market conditions, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the employment of black and white single mothers, Soc Sci Res, 36, 95, 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.09.004 Collin, 2020, Short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on mental health and health behaviors, Prev Med, 139, 10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106223 Eissa, 2006, Behavioral responses to taxes: lessons from the EITC and labor supply, Tax Policy Econ, 20, 73, 10.1086/tpe.20.20061905 Rehkopf, 2014, The short-term impacts of Earned Income Tax Credit disbursement on health, Int J Epidemiol, 43, 1884, 10.1093/ije/dyu172 Dow, 2019, Can economic policies reduce deaths of despair?, Natl Bureau Econ Res Work Pap Ser Averett, 2013, The effects of Earned Income Tax Credit payment expansion on maternal smoking, Health Econ, 22, 1344, 10.1002/hec.2886 Cowan, 2012, Education, maternal smoking, and the earned income tax credit, BE J Econ Anal Policy, 12 Evans, 2014, Giving mom a break: the impact of higher EITC payments on maternal health, Am Econ J, 6, 258 Schmeiser, 2009, Expanding wallets and waistlines: the impact of family income on the BMI of women and men eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, Health Econ, 18, 1277, 10.1002/hec.1430 Hamad, 2019, The short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on health care expenditures among US adults, Health Serv Res, 54, 1295, 10.1111/1475-6773.13204 Strully, 2010, Effects of prenatal poverty on infant health: state earned income tax credits and birth weight, Am Sociol Rev, 75, 534, 10.1177/0003122410374086 Hoynes, 2015, Income, the earned income tax credit, and infant health, Am Econ J, 7, 172 Komro, 2019, Effects of state-level earned income tax credit laws on birth outcomes by race and ethnicity, Health Equity, 3, 61, 10.1089/heq.2018.0061 Bruckner, 2013, Income gains and very low-weight birth among low-income black mothers in California, Biodemograph Soc Biol, 59, 141, 10.1080/19485565.2013.833802 Hamad, 2015, Poverty, pregnancy, and birth outcomes: a study of the earned income tax credit, Paediatr Perinatal Epidemiol, 29, 444, 10.1111/ppe.12211 Markowitz, 2017, Effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes, Soc Sci Med, 194, 67, 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.016 Andrade, 2019, Impact of the Chicago earned income tax periodic payment intervention on food security, Prev Med Rep, 16 Hamad, 2016, Poverty and child development: a longitudinal study of the impact of the earned income tax credit, Am J Epidemiol, 183, 775, 10.1093/aje/kwv317 Dahl, 2012, The impact of family income on child achievement: evidence from the earned income tax credit, Am Econ Rev, 102, 1927, 10.1257/aer.102.5.1927 Hamad, 2018, Estimating the short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on child health, Am J Epidemiol, 187, 2633 Romich, 2000, How families view and use the EITC: advance payment versus lump sum delivery, Natl Tax J, 53 Goodman-Bacon, 2008, How do EITC recipients spend their refunds?, Econ Perspect, 32, 17 Bailey, 2020, Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program, Natl Bureau Econ Res Work Pap Ser Seligman, 2014, Exhaustion of food budgets at month's end and hospital admissions for hypoglycemia, Health Aff (Millwood), 33, 116, 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0096 Feenberg, 1993, An introduction to the TAXSIM model, J Policy Anal Manag, 12, 189, 10.2307/3325474 Davison G, Roll SP, Taylor SH, Grinstein-Weiss M. The state of state EITCs: An overview and their implications for low- and moderate-income households. CSD Research Brief No 18-04. St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development; 2018. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1614&context=csd_research. Scholz, 1994, The earned income tax credit:participation, compliance, and antipoverty effectiveness, Natl Tax J, 47, 63, 10.1086/NTJ41789053 Jones MR. Changes in EITC eligibility & participation, 2005-2009. Washington, D.C.: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications U.S. Census Bureau; 2014. Report No.: 2014-0 4. Lenhart, 2019, The effects of state-level earned income tax credits on suicides, Health Econ, 28, 1476, 10.1002/hec.3948 Boyd-Swan, 2016, The earned income tax credit, mental health, and happiness, J Econ Behav Org, 126, 18, 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.11.004 LaLumia, 2013, The EITC, tax refunds, and unemployment spells, Am Econ J, 5, 188 Bickel, 2000 Cole, 2000, Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey, BMJ, 320, 1240, 10.1136/bmj.320.7244.1240 Cole, 1998, British 1990 growth reference centiles for weight, height, body mass index and head circumference fitted by maximum penalized likelihood, Stat Med, 17, 407, 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980228)17:4<407::AID-SIM742>3.0.CO;2-L Cole, 1992, Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood, Stat Med, 11, 1305, 10.1002/sim.4780111005 Cole, 1990, The LMS method for constructing normalized growth standards, Eur J Clin Nutr, 44, 45 Kuczmarski, 2000, CDC growth charts: United States, Adv Data, 1 Melchior, 2012, Food insecurity and children's mental health: a prospective birth cohort study, PloS One, 7, 10.1371/journal.pone.0052615 Melchior, 2009, Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children, Pediatrics, 124, e564, 10.1542/peds.2009-0583 Achenbach, 1983 Simpson, 2002, Estimates of attention, cognitive, and emotional problems, and health service use by US school-age children, Mental Health, United States, 105 Achenbach, 1987, Empirically based assessment of the behavioral/emotional problems of 2- and 3- year-old children, J Abnorm Child Psychol, 15, 629, 10.1007/BF00917246 Warnick, 2008, Screening efficiency of the child behavior checklist and strengths and difficulties questionnaire: a systematic review, Child Adolescent Mental Health, 13, 140, 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2007.00461.x Koot, 1997, Behavioral and emotional problems in young preschoolers: cross-cultural testing of the validity of the Child Behavior Checklist/2-3, J Abnorm Child Psychol, 25, 183, 10.1023/A:1025791814893 Ivanova, 2010, Preschool psychopathology reported by parents in 23 societies: testing the seven-syndrome model of the child behavior checklist for ages 1.5-5, J Am Acad Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 49, 1215 Goodman, 1999, The extended version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a guide to child psychiatric caseness and consequent burden, J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 40, 791, 10.1111/1469-7610.00494 Goodman, 1997, The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: a research note, J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 38, 581, 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1997.tb01545.x Dimick, 2014, Methods for evaluating changes in health care policy: the difference-in-differences approach, Jama, 312, 2401, 10.1001/jama.2014.16153 Eissa, 1996, Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111, 605, 10.2307/2946689 Kramer, 2019, Periodic earned income tax credit (EITC) payment, financial stress and wellbeing: a longitudinal study, J Family Econ Issues, 40, 511, 10.1007/s10834-019-09618-2 Greenlee, 2020, Financial instability in the earned income tax credit program: can advanced periodic payments ameliorate systemic stressors?, Urban Affairs Rev, 0 Jones, 2010, Information, preferences, and public benefit participation: experimental evidence from the advance EITC and 401 (k) savings, Am Econ J, 2, 147 Rehkopf DH, Strully KW, Dow WH. The Effects of Anti-Poverty Tax Policy on Child and Adolescent BMI and Obesity. Working Paper. Washington, DC: Strong Foundations: The Economic Futures of Kids and Communities. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2017. Jo, 2018, Does the earned income tax credit increase children's weight? The impact of policy-driven income on childhood obesity, Health Econ, 27, 1089, 10.1002/hec.3658 Cole, 2005, What is the best measure of adiposity change in growing children: BMI, BMI %, BMI z-score or BMI centile?, Eur J Clin Nutr, 59, 419, 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602090 Bastian, 2018, The long-term impact of the earned income tax credit on children’s education and employment outcomes, J Labor Econ, 36, 1127, 10.1086/697477 Braga, 2020, The long-term effects of childhood exposure to the earned income tax credit on health outcomes, J Pub Econ, 190, 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104249 Pilkauskas, 2019, The effect of the earned income tax credit on housing and living arrangements, Demography, 56, 1303, 10.1007/s13524-019-00791-5 Mendenhall, 2012, The role of earned income tax credit in the budgets of low-income households, Soc Serv Rev, 86, 367, 10.1086/667972