Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2021 Background Although research has repeatedly demonstrated the association between poverty, mental health, and health behaviours, there is limited evidence on the effects of interventions to improve these outcomes by addressing poverty directly.
L. Shields-Zeeman +3 more
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The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Physical and Mental health-Results from the Atlanta Paycheck Plus Experiment. [PDF]
Milbank Q, 2023 Policy Points The Paycheck Plus randomized controlled trial tested a fourfold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for single adults without dependent children over 3 years in New York and Atlanta.
Muennig P +5 more
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Estimating the Short-Term Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Child Health [PDF]
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2018 Rita Hamad, David H Rehkopf
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Understanding Take-Up Of The Earned Income Tax Credit Among Californians With Low Income.
Health Affairs, 2022 The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest poverty alleviation program for families with children in the US, and it has well-documented health effects. However, not all eligible families receive benefits.
R. Hamad +6 more
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Rural Latino families in California are missing earned income tax benefits
California Agriculture, 2004 When properly accessed, the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) can boost a family's yearly income by more than $4,000. A study in Kern and Madera counties indicated that many, perhaps most, qualified low-income Latino families living in rural ...
K Varcoe, N Lees, M López
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No More Second-Class Taxpayers: How Income Splitting Can Bring Fairness to Canada’s Single Income Families [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2013 The Canadian personal income tax system does not pay much attention to whether the amount of money an individual brings home is supplemented by the income of a spouse or not.
Matt Krzepkowski, Jack M. Mintz
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Short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on mental health and health behaviors. [PDF]
Prev Med, 2020 Poverty has consistently been linked to poor mental health and risky health behaviors, yet few studies evaluate the effectiveness of programs and policies to address these outcomes by targeting poverty itself.
Collin DF +6 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background To examine the effects of refundable state earned income tax credits (EITC) on infant health. Methods We use the restricted-access U.S. birth certificate data with county codes from 1989 to 2018.
Haobing Qian, George L. Wehby
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The Health Effects Of Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit: Results From New York City. [PDF]
Health Aff (Millwood), 2020 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.
Courtin E +5 more
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Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 We develop a new approach for the identification of Pareto‐improving tax reforms. This approach yields necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Pareto‐improving reform directions. A main insight is that “Two brackets are enough”: When the system cannot be improved by altering tax rates in one or two income brackets, then there is no ...
Bierbrauer, Felix +2 more
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