2011
DOI: 10.1257/pol.3.3.175
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Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Well-being of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

Abstract: A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One channel through which increased income may operate is an improvement in a family's ability to provide food, shelter, clothing, books, and other expenditure-related inputs to a child's development. In addition to this channel, many scholars have investigated the relationship between income and the psychological wellbeing of the family. By reducing stress and conflict, more income helps to foster an… Show more

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“…First, many earlier studies focused on disadvantaged populations. Although population heterogeneity o¤ers a plausible partial explanation for the difference in results, we reject positive e¤ects (in the sense of better outcomes) of a $1,000 increase in annual income larger than 0.03 SD units when we study birth weight, drug consumption and school 3 4 Key papers include Dahl and Lochner (2012), Milligan andStabile (2011), Loken, Mogstad, andWiswall (2012), and Duncan, Morris, and Rodrigues (2011). 3 5 The negative income tax experiments (NITs), conducted primarily in the 1970s, have also been used to study the e¤ects of income on child outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 67%
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“…First, many earlier studies focused on disadvantaged populations. Although population heterogeneity o¤ers a plausible partial explanation for the difference in results, we reject positive e¤ects (in the sense of better outcomes) of a $1,000 increase in annual income larger than 0.03 SD units when we study birth weight, drug consumption and school 3 4 Key papers include Dahl and Lochner (2012), Milligan andStabile (2011), Loken, Mogstad, andWiswall (2012), and Duncan, Morris, and Rodrigues (2011). 3 5 The negative income tax experiments (NITs), conducted primarily in the 1970s, have also been used to study the e¤ects of income on child outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 67%
“…Quasi-experimental evidence on the e¤ect of household income on child outcomes is scarcer and the results are more mixed, but see, e.g., Akee, Copeland, Keeler, Angold, and Costello (2010), Dahl and Lochner (2012), Duncan, Morris, and Rodrigues (2011), Milligan and Stabile (2011), Salkind and Haskins (1982) and Sacerdote (2007). 2 For details on the Charlson index, see Online Appendix section 6.5.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Duncan, Morris, and Rodrigues (2011) estimate similar impacts using data from several welfare-to-work experiments. Milligan and Stabile (2011) find even larger impacts in Canada, 2 where $1,000 in extra child-care benefits increases math scores by 0.05 SD overall and 0.177 SD for boys. Akee et al (2010) study the effects of income received by low-income Native…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Estimated effects also appear to be larger for children from more disadvantaged families. Milligan and Stabile (2011) estimate that expansions of child tax benefits in Canada led to similar improvements in child cognitive and educational outcomes as well as improvements in child and maternal health.…”
Section: Factmentioning
confidence: 99%