The Health Effects Of Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit: Results From New York City.

Children's health Education Health effects Health policy Low income Payment Quality of life Tax credits Taxes

Journal

Health affairs (Project Hope)
ISSN: 1544-5208
Titre abrégé: Health Aff (Millwood)
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8303128

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
07 2020
Historique:
entrez: 8 7 2020
pubmed: 8 7 2020
medline: 15 5 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Antipoverty policies may hold promise as tools to improve health and reduce mortality rates among low-income Americans. We examined the health effects of the New York City Paycheck Plus randomized controlled trial. Paycheck Plus tests the impact of a potential fourfold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Americans without dependent children. Starting in 2015, Paycheck Plus offered 5,968 study participants a credit of up to $2,000 at tax time (treatment) or the standard credit of about $500 (control). Health-related quality of life and other outcomes for a representative subset of these participants (

Identifiants

pubmed: 32634360
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01556
pmc: PMC7909715
mid: NIHMS1668740
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1149-1156

Subventions

Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : R01 AG054466
Pays : United States
Organisme : Medical Research Council
ID : MR/T032499/1
Pays : United Kingdom

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Auteurs

Emilie Courtin (E)

Emilie Courtin (Emilie.Courtin@lshtm.ac.uk) is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health, Environments, and Society in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in London, United Kingdom. At the time the study was conducted, she was a David E. Bell Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kali Aloisi (K)

Kali Aloisi is a master's degree student in the Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. At the time the study was conducted, she was a research assistant at MDRC, in New York City.

Cynthia Miller (C)

Cynthia Miller is a senior fellow in the Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area, MDRC.

Heidi L Allen (HL)

Heidi L. Allen is an associate professor in the School of Social Work, Columbia University, in New York City.

Lawrence F Katz (LF)

Lawrence F. Katz is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Peter Muennig (P)

Peter Muennig is a professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

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