EITC with two or more children compared to those with only one child. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factors … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …

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 … Income Tax Credit. Using tax-reform induced variation in the federal EITC, we examine the impact of the credit on infant …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One …, and family type, we study outcomes spanning test scores, mental health, physical health, and deprivation measures. The … the existing literature. However, we also find that several measures of both child and maternal mental health and well …

(EITC) is associated with decreases in low birth weight. We question their findings. HMS’s difference … mechanism as the association between the EITC and prenatal smoking also fails placebo tests. We contend that the waning of the … effect of the EITC when aggregated to the national level. Identifying small, causal effects of a national policy at a single …

, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on maternal health behaviors, birth weight and gestation weeks. We find … little difference in maternal health behaviors associated with state-level EITC. In contrast, results for key infant health … states with more generous EITCs. Our results provide evidence for important health benefits of state-level EITC policies …

emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …

children, but the effects on long-term health are overall negligible. However, we demonstrate that the schooling reform had …-term health. We use detailed administrative data combined with survey information to create a data set with background information … cognition and skills for lower Socio-economic status individuals and lower ability people …

We make use of a new data resource, merged birth and school records for all children born in Florida from 1992 to 2002 … measures of school quality. We conclude that the effects of poor neonatal health on adult outcomes are therefore set very early …

While there is a well-established, large positive correlation between mental and physical health and education outcomes … health conditions on academic outcomes. We present evidence of large impacts of poor mental health on academic achievement … poor health. Finally, our sensitivity analysis suggests that these differences in specific portions of the genetic code …

In this paper, we investigate the association between weight and children's educational achievement, as measured by … 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), which contains a large, national sample of children …-invariant characteristics of the child. Our results suggest that, in general, children who are overweight or obese have achievement test scores …