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差异 在生命的早期。贫穷家庭的孩子出生时的健康状况比贫穷家庭的孩子差。 高收入家庭，健康和收入之间的关系变得更加重要。 在生命周期中不断出现。在生命早期经历健康状况较差的儿童也会继续 教育程度、健康和社会经济地位明显较低， 成年这种关系表明，优势的代际传递， 我们观察到，在家庭内部，富裕的父母赋予孩子的健康状况可能会推动家庭的发展。 他们的孩子在生命的早期。了解父母收入不平等如何导致 因此，儿童期的健康可能有助于我们了解收入不平等的模式， 更普遍的代际经济流动性，也有助于决策者 关于现金转移有效性的决策。我们建议提供新的证据， 父母收入与子女身心健康和幸福的关系 Y Combinator Research（YCR）基本收入随机对照试验YCR 实验将提供每月1,000美元的补充收入，以随机选择 治疗组在三年的时间里，对照组每月接受50美元， 同期业绩这项研究的3,000名参与者中有3,640名18岁以下的儿童生活在 在他们的家里。我们将调查参与者对他们的孩子和利用现有的 行政数据集，以获得有关该收入补贴对 儿童的健康结果。通过比较治疗组参与者和对照组的儿童， 我们将记录父母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、浓缩开支和 活动，邻里质量，非父母照顾的质量（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、发展里程碑的实现、认知发展和身体健康 (Aim 3）。我们的研究将提供新的、及时的和与政策相关的估计， 父母收入对儿童健康和福祉的影响， 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.