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Association between Child Tax Credit advance payments and food insufficiency in households experiencing economic shocks.
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- Impacts of the 2021 child tax credit advance monthly payments on birth outcomes in the United States: a natural experiment.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Association between pre-pandemic wealth and material hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic: how racial and ethnic wealth inequities shape household vulnerability to national crises.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- State Minimum Wage and Food Insecurity Among US Households With Children.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Food Chain and Food Policies: Causes and Solutions for the Obesity Pandemic.Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal · 2025Review
- The Impacts of Programs and Policies to Address Food Insecurity: An Analysis of Change in Income.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Economic insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic among healthcare workers by educational attainment.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought increases in economic shocks due to poor health and lost employment, which reduced economic well-being, especially in households with children. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments to include eligibility for the lowest income households, boosted benefit levels, and provided monthly advance payments to households with children. Using Census Household Pulse Survey respondent data from January 2021 to July 2022, we evaluated the association between these advance CTC monthly payments and food insufficiency among households with children experiencing health- or employment-related economic shocks (defined as missed work due to COVID-19/other illness or COVID-19-related employer closure/layoff/furlough). Using a triple difference design, we found that the advance CTC was associated with greater reductions in food insufficiency among households with children experiencing economic shocks both compared with households without children and with households with children not experiencing economic shocks. Permanently expanding the advance CTC could create resilience to economic shocks during disease outbreaks, climate disasters, and recessions.
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