Improving population health by reducing poverty
New York’s Earned Income Tax Credit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15742015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeannette Wicks‐Lim (0000-0002-7616-0233, University of Massachusetts Amherst, corresponding author), Peter S Arno (National Academy of Social Insurance) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pages | 373-381 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SSM - Population Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2352-8273 • E-ISSN: 2352-8273 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.03.006 |
| PMID | 29349231 |
| OpenAlex | W2408161839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
Despite the established relationship between adverse health outcomes and low socioeconomic status, researchers rarely test the link between health improvements and poverty-alleviating economic policies. New research, however, links individual-level health improvements to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a broad-based income support policy. We build on these findings by examining whether the EITC has ecological, neighborhood-level health effects. We use a difference-in-difference analysis to measure child health outcomes in 90 low- and middle- income neighborhoods before and after the expansion of New York State and New York City's EITC policy between 1997-2010. Our study takes advantage of the relatively exogenous source of income variation supplied by the EITC-legislative changes to EITC policy parameters. This feature minimizes the endogeneity problem in studying the relationship between income and health. Our estimates link a 15-percentage-point increase in EITC benefit rates to a 0.45 percentage-point reduction in the low birthweight rate. We do not observe any measurable link between EITC benefits and prenatal health or asthma-related pediatric hospitalization. The magnitude of the EITC's impact on low birthweight rates suggests ecological effects, and an additional channel through which anti-poverty measures can serve as public health interventions
Earned income tax credit · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Labour economics · Population · Poverty · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
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| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |