This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned … health outcomes. We find that increased EITC income reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight … establishing that an exogenous increase in income can improve health, and illustrating a health impact of a non-health program …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program … participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid implementation and in states with higher pre-existing welfare …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program … participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid implementation and in states with higher pre-existing welfare …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and …

variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …-to-needs ratio. Methods: This cross-sectional study used data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) 2003–2004—a …According to the Blacks’ Diminished Return theory, the health effects of high socioeconomic status (SES) are …

We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

This paper investigates whether the health of children affects the likelihood that their parents divorce. Using data … to live in poverty, this finding suggests that children's health problems could be the cause rather than the result of … from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, and the 1970 British …

) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …