This study estimates the effects of prenatal poverty on birth weight using changes in state
Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) as a natural experiment. We seek to answer two …

Background Economic interventions are increasingly recognised as a mechanism to
address perinatal health outcomes among disadvantaged groups. In the US, the earned …

Although adverse socioeconomic conditions are correlated with worse child health and
development, the effects of poverty-alleviation policies are less understood. We examined …

Understanding the consequences of growing up poor for a child's well-being is an important
research question, but one that is difficult to answer due to the potential endogeneity of …

Purpose: Health disparities persist in birth outcomes by mother's income, education, and
race in the United States. Disadvantaged mothers may experience benefit from supplements …

Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors and are less healthy than
children reared in more affluent families. We look beyond correlations such as these to a …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC) laws in the US on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes …

We examine the effect of the EITC on the poverty and income of single mothers with children
using a quasi-experimental approach that leverages variation in generosity due to policy …

This paper uses quasi-experimental variation from federal tax reform to evaluate the effect of
the EITC on infant health outcomes. We find that the EITC reduces the incidence of low birth …

Childhood economic disadvantage is associated with lower cognitive and social-emotional
skills, reduced educational attainment, and lower earnings in adulthood. Despite these …