Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills
Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills
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DOI：
10.1177/1091142116654965
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发表时间：
2018-07-01
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Wang, Yang
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作者：
Averett, Susan;Wang, Yang
1993年，根据家庭中子女人数的不同，收入所得税抵免(EITC)的福利水平发生了重大变化。利用这一政策变化，并采用差异差异加母亲固定影响框架，我们发现，无论种族/民族，未婚母亲的子女的家庭环境质量都得到了显著改善，已婚白人母亲的子女发生事故的可能性降低，母亲评级的健康状况得到改善。未婚黑人和西班牙裔母亲的孩子也有更好的母亲评级的健康。我们的结果为1993年EITC扩张的积极溢出效应提供了新的证据，因此具有重要的政策含义。
In 1993, the benefit levels of the earned income tax credit (EITC) were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household. Exploiting this policy change and employing a difference-in-differences plus mother fixed effects framework, we find significantly improved home environment quality for children of unmarried mothers, regardless of their race/ethnicity, and lowered probabilities of having accidents and improved mother-rated health for children of married white mothers. Children of unmarried black and Hispanic mothers also had better mother-rated health. Our results provide new evidence of positive spillover effects of the 1993 EITC expansion and therefore have important policy implications.