insufficiency among low-income households with children. Second, the effects on food insufficiency are concentrated among families … first CTC payments. As more children receive the benefit in future months, material hardship may decline further. Even with … insufficiency among low-income families with children …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to "early" or "late" treatment groups. Although … the early treatment group received twice as much in transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One …

eligible parents in Wisconsin, which supplements the federal EITC for families with three children, to that of similar parents … have relied on changes in the EITC over time, or EITC eligibility differences for families with and without children, or …

reducing poverty and food insufficiency, but there is little research on the impact it had on household spending and … on specific items related to children's education and development. Our findings indicate that families utilized the CTC … payments to enhance the well-being of both their children and the entire household. For each $100 of imputed CTC payment, our …

pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families … children (parity). Estimates indicate that these pandemic cash payments had no statistically significant, or clinically or …