The earned income tax credit and infant health revisited
| Autor: | Daniel Dench, Ted Joyce |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Health Policy
Income Tax Smoking Causal effect Infant Infant health Infant Low Birth Weight Difference in differences Low birth weight Models Economic Pregnancy Earned income tax credit medicine Economics Humans National Policy Female Infant Health National level Demographic economics medicine.symptom Single point Poverty |
| Zdroj: | Health Economics. 29:72-84 |
| ISSN: | 1099-1050 1057-9230 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/hec.3972 |
| Popis: | Hoynes, Miller, and Simon (2015), henceforth HMS, report that the national expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is associated with decreases in low birth weight. We question their findings. HMS's difference-in-differences estimates are unidentified in some comparisons, while failed placebo tests undermine others. Their effects lack a plausible mechanism as the association between the EITC and prenatal smoking also fails placebo tests. We contend that the waning of the crack epidemic is a possible confound, but we show that any number of policies directed at poor women also eliminate the effect of the EITC when aggregated to the national level. Identifying small, causal effects of a national policy at a single point in time is exceedingly challenging. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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