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 …

) 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 …