No Evidence The Child Tax Credit Expansion Had An Effect On The Well-Being And Mental Health Of Parents
No Evidence The Child Tax Credit Expansion Had An Effect On The Well-Being And Mental Health Of Parents
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10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00730
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发表时间：
2022-11-01
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9.7
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Wimer, Christopher T.
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作者：
Glasner, Benjamin;Jimenez-Solomon, Oscar;Wimer, Christopher T.
1997年，美国设立了儿童税收抵免（CTC），向受抚养子女的父母提供付款，以帮助支付抚养子女的费用。 2021 年，CTC 进行了临时扩张，增加了支付规模，向低收入或无收入家庭延长了支付范围，并按月支付而非每年支付。美国的准实验证据和中低收入国家的实验证据表明，中等到大量的现金转移可以改善主观幸福感和心理健康。我们利用“了解美国研究”的数据估计了 CTC 的扩张对成年受益者的主观幸福感和心理健康的影响，该研究是一项全国代表性调查，涵盖了 7,000 多名受访者和 2,700 多名有孩子的独特受访者。我们没有发现任何证据表明 CTC 扩张对成年接受者的生活满意度、焦虑和抑郁症状有显着的短期影响。我们推测零效应可能是由于扩张的暂时性造成的。
In 1997 the US established the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which offers payments to parents of dependent children to help defray child -rearing costs. In 2021 a temporary expansion to the CTC increased the size of payments, extended payments to families with low or no earnings, and distributed payments monthly instead of annually. Quasi -experimental evidence from the US and experimental evidence from low -and middle-income countries shows that moderate-to-large cash transfers improve subjective well-being and mental health. We estimated the CTC's expansion's effects on the subjective well-being and mental health of adult recipients, using data from the Understanding America Study, a nationally representative survey with more than 7,000 respondents and more than 2,700 unique respondents with children. We found no evidence that the CTC expansion had a significant short-term impact on measures of life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression symptomology among adult recipients. We speculate that the null effects may be due to the expansion's temporary nature.