Improving population health by reducing poverty: New York's Earned Income Tax Credit.

ABSTRACT: Despite the established relationship between adverse health outcomes and low socioeconomic status, researchers rarely test the link between health improvements and poverty-alleviating economic policies. New research, however, links individual-level health improvements to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a broad-based income support policy. We build on these findings by examining whether the EITC has ecological, neighborhood-level health effects. We use a difference-in-difference analysis to measure child health outcomes in 90 low- and middle- income neighborhoods before and after the expansion of New York State and New York City's EITC policy between 1997-2010. Our study takes advantage of the relatively exogenous source of income variation supplied by the EITC-legislative changes to E

SUBMITTER: Wicks-Lim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5769044 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature