| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26476 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26476 |
| The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health Revisited | |
| Daniel L. Dench; Theodore J. Joyce | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-11-18 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Hoynes, Miller and Simon (2015), henceforth HMS, report that the national expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is associated with decreases in low birth weight. We question their findings. HMS’s difference-in-differences estimates are unidentified in some comparisons, while failed placebo tests undermine others. Their effects lack a plausible mechanism as the association between the EITC and prenatal smoking also fails placebo tests. We contend that the waning of the crack epidemic is a possible confound, but we show that any number of policies directed at poor women also eliminate the effect of the EITC when aggregated to the national level. Identifying small, causal effects of a national policy at a single point in time is exceedingly challenging. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26476 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584147 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daniel L. Dench,Theodore J. Joyce. The Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health Revisited. 2019. |
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