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 …

The health care system commonly relies on information about family medical history in the allocation of screenings and … marginal diagnoses across family members, thereby raising caseloads and health care costs, but without improving patient well …" patients often has minimal impacts. This paper shows that reliance on information about relatives' health can perpetuate …

We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program that … occurred in the 1980's and 1990's. With administrative data from the IRS, we calculate longitudinal health insurance … eligibility from birth to age 18 for children in cohorts affected by these expansions, and we observe their longitudinal outcomes …

Hoynes, Miller and Simon (2015), henceforth HMS, report that the national expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit …

benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …The 1993 expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit created the first meaningful separation in the benefit level for … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One … channel through which increased income may operate is an improvement in a family's ability to provide food, shelter, clothing … investigated the relationship between income and the psychological wellbeing of the family. By reducing stress and conflict, more …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U ….S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses …, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on maternal health behaviors, birth weight and gestation weeks. We find …

income on infant health. We measure the total amount of pandemic payments received during pregnancy, or the year before birth … economically meaningful effects on infant health. Overall, the findings suggest that income transfers during pregnancy will have … pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families …

household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra-family … relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling …

low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the …Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal …