ArticlePreventive medicine reports2022
State earned income tax credits and depression and alcohol misuse among women with children.
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- Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Mental Health Around Pregnancy.Health economics · 2026Article
- Social Safety Net Programs: The Relationship With Drug Treatment Among Women.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health - a review of studies in the United States.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Review
- State Earned Income Tax Credits and Firearm Suicides.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Preventing Substance Use and Overdose Among Young Adults: The Role of Social Determinants of Health.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Article
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- Transformational narrative changes as a community-level approach to the prevention of adverse childhood experiences and substance use.American journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- No change in substance use disorders or overdose after implementation of state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies and Substance Use Rates.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Unconditional cash transfers and mental health symptoms among parents with low incomes: Evidence from the 2021 child tax credit.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Investigating Employment Quality for Population Health and Health Equity: A Perspective of Power.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
About 30% of single mothers in the US live at or below the poverty line. Poverty is associated with higher risk of depression and substance use. We investigated associations between state earned income tax credit (EITC) policies and reported depressive symptoms and alcohol misuse among birthing parents who responded to Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey spanning 1990-2017. Nearly half of birthing parents reported no more than a high school education (45.4%; 95% CI: 45.3%-45.6%). An estimated 28.5% of birthing parents reported binge drinking in the three months prior to conception (95% CI: 28.3-28.8%). Among birthing parents, each 10 percentage-point increase in the generosity of state EITC relative to the federal EITC was associated with a lower prevalence of binge drinking (prevalence ratio = 0.96; 95% CI: 0.93-0.99) prior to conception. This association was more pronounced among birthing parents with no more than high school education (prevalence ratio = 0.92; 95% CI: 0.88-0.97). There was no association between state EITC and number of reported depressive symptoms prior to conception or after birth, except among those with lower educational attainment (prevalence ratio = 0.94; 95% CI: 0.89-0.99). Anti-poverty policies such as EITC may reduce the burden of alcohol misuse, especially among people with children.
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