Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Parental Income on Child Health and Well Being

项目摘要 不同收入家庭的儿童在健康和福祉方面出现了差距 在生命的早期。贫困家庭的孩子与生俱来的健康状况比他们的同龄人差 收入较高的家庭，健康和收入之间的这种关系变得更加 在整个生命周期中都是如此。在生命早期健康状况较差的儿童也会继续 受教育程度、健康状况和社会经济地位显著下降 成人期。这种关系表明，这种优势的代际传递 我们观察到，在家庭内部，可能是由富裕的父母赋予的良好健康状况推动的 他们的孩子在生命的早期。理解父母收入不平等如何导致不平等 因此，童年时期的健康可能有助于我们理解收入不平等的模式和 更广泛的代际经济流动性，也有助于政策制定者 关于现金转移有效性的决定。我们建议提供新的证据 父母收入与儿童身心健康和幸福感的关系 通过Y组合研究(YCR)基本收入随机对照试验。YCR 实验将向随机选择的一个人每月提供1000美元的补充收入 治疗组为期三年，对照组每月收到50美元以上 同一时期。这项研究的3000名参与者中有3640名18岁以下的儿童 在他们的家里。我们将对参与者的子女进行调查，并利用现有的 行政数据集，以获取关于这一收入补充对以下方面影响的信息 儿童的健康结果。通过将治疗组参与者的孩子与对照组进行比较 小组参与者，我们将记录父母的收入如何影响家庭质量 环境和父母互动(目标1)，以及对儿童福祉的投资 包括获得和使用医疗保健、粮食安全、用于浓缩和生产的支出 活动、邻里质量、非父母照料的质量(目标2)和童年 情绪、行为、多动症/注意力不集中和同伴关系问题，亲社会 行为、发展里程碑成就、认知发展和身体健康 (目标3)。我们的研究将提供新的、及时的、与政策相关的评估，以评估 父母收入对儿童健康和福祉的影响及其机制 关系运作。

Project Summary Disparities in health and well-being among children in families with different incomes emerge early in life. Children in poor families are born with worse health than their counterparts in higher income families, and this relationship between health and income becomes more pronounced through the life cycle. Children who experience worse health early in life also go on to have significantly lower educational attainment, health, and socio-economic status in adulthood. This relationship suggests that the intergenerational transmission of advantage that we observe within families could be driven by the good health that wealthy parents confer to their children early in life. Understanding how unequal parental incomes result in unequal health in childhood may therefore help us understand patterns of income inequality and intergenerational economic mobility more generally and also help policymakers make informed decisions about the efficacy of cash transfers. We propose to provide new evidence on the relationship between parental income and children's mental and physical health and well-being through the Y Combinator Research (YCR) Basic Income randomized controlled trial. The YCR experiment will provide $1,000 per month of supplemental income to a randomly-selected treatment group over a period of three years, with a control group receiving $50 per month over the same period. The 3,000 participants in the study have 3,640 children under the age 18 living in their household. We will survey participants about their children and leverage existing administrative datasets to obtain information on the impact of this income supplement on children's health outcomes. By comparing children of treatment group participants to control group participants, we will document how parental income affects the quality of the household environment and parental interactions (Aim 1), and investment in children's well-being including access to and use of medical care, food security, expenditures on enrichment and activities, neighborhood quality, and the quality of non-parental care (Aim 2) and childhood emotional, conduct, hyperactivity/inattention and peer relationship problems, pro-social behavior, achievement of developmental milestones, cognitive development and physical health (Aim 3). Our study will provide new, timely, and policy-relevant estimates on the impact of parental income on child health and well-being and the mechanisms through which this relationship operates.