Impact of Income Maintenance on Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Gary Experiment

Kehrer, Barbara H.; Wolin, Charles M.

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“…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. Evaluations have found some suggestive evidence of positive impacts on early (but not late) academic achievement of children (Maynard and Murnane 1979, Maynard 1977, Salkind and Haskins 1982, on nutritional quality (O'Connor and Madden 1979), and on infant birth weights (Kehrer and Wolin 1979). Unfortunately, these …ndings must be interpreted with great caution because the samples are small and the …ndings do not show up robustly across the study's sites.…”

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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factorssuch as the number of lottery tickets -conditional on which the prizes were randomly assigned. In adults, we …nd no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception of a small reduction in the consumption of mental health drugs. Our estimates allow us to rule out e¤ects on 10-year mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we …nd that wealth increases children's health care utilization in the years following the lottery and may also reduce obesity risk. The e¤ects on most other child outcomes, which include drug consumption, scholastic performance, and skills, can usually be bounded to a tight interval around zero. Overall, our …ndings suggest that correlations observed in a-uent, developed countries between (i) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not re ‡ect a causal e¤ect of wealth.

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“…One approach is to use variation in social assistance policies to leverage exogenous variation in income. For example, Currie and Cole (1993) use a sibling fixed effect estimator and find that receipt of AFDC income has no impact on birth weight while Kehrer and Wolin (1979) find evidence that the Gary Income Maintenance experiment may have improved birth weight for some groups. More recently, Almond, Hoynes, and Schanzenbach (2011) use the introduction of the Food Stamp Program and find that the near-cash transfer leads to an increase in birth weight, a reduction in low birth weight, and no change in neonatal infant mortality.…”

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Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

Hoynes¹,

Miller

Simon³

2015

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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“…5,6 However, although mortality is strongly related to the differences in socioeconomic status between classes within the developed countries, the relationship between national mortality rates and the average standard of living in de- health. In the United States work like that of Keil et al13 has established that the bogey of racial differences in health is an expression ofthe underlying differences in socioeconomic status.…”

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National mortality rates: the impact of inequality?

Wilkinson

1992

Am J Public Health

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Although health is closely associated with income differences within each country there is, at best, only a weak link between national mortality rates and average income among the developed countries. On the other hand, there is evidence of a strong relationship between national mortality rates and the scale of income differences within each society. These three elements are coherent if health is affected less by changes in absolute material standards across affluent populations than it is by relative income or the scale of income differences and the resulting sense of disadvantage within each society. Rather than socioeconomic mortality differentials representing a distribution around given national average mortality rates, it is likely that the degree of income inequality indicates the burden of relative deprivation on national mortality rates.

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Impact of Income Maintenance on Low Birth Weight: Evidence from the Gary Experiment

Cited by 120 publications

References 18 publications

Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health

National mortality rates: the impact of inequality?

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