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The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2010
detectible increase in poverty or worsening of child-well-being. We re-evaluate these results in light of the severe recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136551
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Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2012
A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097786
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Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2012
This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned Income Tax Credit. Using tax-reform induced variation in the federal EITC, we examine the impact of the credit on infant health outcomes. We find that increased EITC income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104065
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How Do the U.S and Canadian Social Safety Nets Compare for Women and Children?
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2017
The past 25 years has seen substantial change in the social safety nets for families with children in the US and Canada. Both countries have moved away from cash welfare but the US has done so relying more exclusively on inwork benefits with work requirements. This paper examines this evolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956927
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Inside the War on Poverty : The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
Almond, Douglas - 2010
This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758428
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Safety Net Investments in Children
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2018
In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs—including Medicaid, EITC, CTC, SNAP, and AFDC/TANF—and how that's changed over time. We find that virtually all gains in spending on the social safety net for children since 1990 have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919319
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Local Food Prices, Snap Purchasing Power, and Child Health
Bronchetti, Erin Todd - 2018
first estimates that leverage variation in SNAP purchasing power across markets to examine effects of SNAP on child health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915657
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Child Poverty, the Great Recession, and the Social Safety Net in the United States
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2016
In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982513
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Is a WIC Start a Better Start? Evaluating Wic's Impact on Infant Health Using Program Introduction
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2010
The goal of federal food and nutrition programs in the United States is to improve the nutritional well-being and health of low income families. A large body of literature evaluates the extent to which the Supplemental Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) has accomplished this goal, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149707