1. The Health Effects Of Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit: Results From New York City.
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Courtin, Emilie, Aloisi, Kali, Miller, Cynthia, Allen, Heidi L., Katz, Lawrence F., and Muennig, Peter
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EMPLOYMENT , *HEALTH status indicators , *HOUSING , *INCOME , *INTERVIEWING , *LONGITUDINAL method , *PUBLIC welfare , *QUALITY of life , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RESEARCH funding , *STATISTICAL sampling , *TAXATION , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Antipoverty policies may hold promise as tools to improve health and reduce mortality rates among low-income Americans. We examined the health effects of the New York City Paycheck Plus randomized controlled trial. Paycheck Plus tests the impact of a potential fourfold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Americans without dependent children. Starting in 2015, Paycheck Plus offered 5,968 study participants a credit of up to $2,000 at tax time (treatment) or the standard credit of about $500 (control). Health-related quality of life and other outcomes for a representative subset of these participants (n = 3,289) were compared to those of a control group thirty-two months after randomization. The intervention had a modest positive effect on employment and earnings, particularly among women. It had no effect on health-related quality of life for the overall sample, but women realized significant improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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