This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned … Income Tax Credit. Using tax-reform induced variation in the federal EITC, we examine the impact of the credit on infant … health outcomes. We find that increased EITC income reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight …

counties in the U.S. between 1961 and 1975. We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to assemble unique data linking family …

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different … earnings, hourly earnings, annual hours, annual earnings, family earnings, family transfer income, and total family income. The … effects on family income than individual earnings. The paper examines the stability of these results by comparing evidence …

conclude that the sizeable increase in income from Food Stamp benefits improved birth outcomes for both whites and African …

estimate the relationship between local purchasing power of SNAP and children's health and health care utilization. We find …

social safety net for children since 1990 have gone to families with earnings, and to families with income above the poverty …In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs … find that access to safety net programs during childhood leads to benefits for children and society over the long run. This …

The past 25 years has seen substantial change in the social safety nets for families with children in the US and Canada … countries, absolutely and relative to a control group of single women without children. The cross-country differences in … declined in both countries with more of the decline coming through market income in the U.S. and benefit income in Canada …

attention to the role of the social safety net in mitigating the adverse effects of shocks to earnings and income. Using a state … we examine how and to what extent the safety net is providing protection to at-risk children. We find compelling evidence … attenuated relative to the cyclicality of private income poverty. We also find that the protective effect of the safety net is …