ArticleBMJ open2020
Can antipoverty programmes save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA.
Article in BMJ open, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Physical and Mental health-Results from the Atlanta Paycheck Plus Experiment.The Milbank quarterly · 2024Trial
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- Lifetime Patterns of Earned Income Tax Credit Eligibility and Cognition: A Sequence Analysis Approach.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- US State Policy Index for Population Health Analyses.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999-2019.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- The effect of the US Child Tax Credit advance payments in 2021 on adolescent mental health: Changes in depression symptoms and suicidality.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Estimation of Potential Deaths Averted From Hypothetical US Income Support Policies.JAMA health forum · 2022Article
- Income and Income Inequality Are a Matter of Life and Death. What Can Policymakers Do About It?American journal of public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate the impact of state-level supplements of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on mortality in the USA. The EITC supplements the wages of lower-income workers by providing larger returns when taxes are filed.
settingNationwide sample spanning 25 cohorts of people across every state in the USA.
participants793 000 respondents within the National Longitudinal Mortality Survey (NLMS) between 1986 and 2011, a representative sample of the USA.
interventionState-level supplementation to the EITC programme. Some, but not all, states added EITC supplementation to varying degrees beginning in 1986 (Wisconsin) and most recently in 2015 (California). Participants who were eligible in states with supplementary programmes were compared with those who were not eligible for supplementation. Comparisons were made both before and after implementation of the supplementary programme (a difference-in-difference, intent-to-treat analysis). This quasi-experimental approach further controls for age, gender, marital status, race or ethnicity, educational attainment, income and employment status. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary outcome measure was survival at 10 years. Secondary outcome measures included survival at 5 years and survival to the end of the intervention period.
resultsWe find an association between state supplemental EITC and survival, with a HR of 0.973 (95% CI=0.951-0.996) for each US$100 of EITC increase (p<0.05).
conclusionState-level supplemental EITC may be an effective means of increasing survival in the USA.
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