Potential mechanisms linking poverty alleviation and health: an analysis of benefit spending among recipients of the U.S. earned income tax credit [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The earned income tax credit (EITC) is the largest U.S. poverty alleviation program for low-income families, disbursed annually as a lump-sum tax refund. Despite its well-documented health impacts, the mechanisms through which the EITC affects
Rita Hamad +4 more
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Earned income tax credit and crime [PDF]
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2021 AbstractThis study examines the relationship between earned income tax credit (EITC) laws and crime. Using data from 1999–2017, a period with 73 state EITC changes, I evaluate the effects of state‐level EITCs on violent and property crime. Estimating difference‐in‐differences models, I find that higher EITCs are associated with significant reductions ...
Otto Lenhart
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Potential gaps in income support policies for those in poor health: The case of the earned income tax credit—A cross sectional analysis [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2023 Background: The federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the primary income support program for low-income workers in the U.S., but its design may hinder its effectiveness when poor health limits, but does not preclude, work.
Seth A. Berkowitz +2 more
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The Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
, 2003 Since its inception in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has grown into the largest, Federally-funded means-tested cash assistance program in the United States. In this chapter, we review the political history of the EITC, its rules and goals and
John Karl Scholz, V. Joseph Hotz
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Estimating the effect of timing of earned income tax credit refunds on perinatal outcomes: a quasi-experimental study of California births [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The largest poverty alleviation program in the US is the earned income tax credit (EITC), providing $60 billion to over 25 million families annually.
Deborah Karasek +15 more
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Effects of changes in earned income tax credit: Time-series analyses of Washington DC [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2019 Poverty has numerous deleterious effects on health, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the major policy tool used to alleviate poverty in the U.S.
Alexander C. Wagenaar +3 more
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Can antipoverty programmes save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2020 Objective To estimate the impact of state-level supplements of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on mortality in the USA. The EITC supplements the wages of lower-income workers by providing larger returns when taxes are filed.Setting Nationwide sample ...
Peter Muennig, Daniel Vail, Jahn K Hakes
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Improving population health by reducing poverty: New York’s Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2017 Despite the established relationship between adverse health outcomes and low socioeconomic status, researchers rarely test the link between health improvements and poverty-alleviating economic policies.
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Peter S. Arno
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Intimate Partner Violence. [PDF]
J Interpers Violence, 2022 Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health problem in the United States with adverse consequences for affected individuals and families. Recent reviews of the literature suggest that economic policies should be further investigated as part of comprehensive strategies to address IPV.
Edmonds AT +6 more
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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws on Birth Outcomes by Race and Ethnicity [PDF]
Health Equity, 2019 Purpose: Health disparities persist in birth outcomes by mother's income, education, and race in the United States. Disadvantaged mothers may experience benefit from supplements to family income, such as the earned income tax credit (EITC).
Kelli A. Komro +3 more
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