Trial reportAmerican journal of epidemiology2022
Effect of Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to Americans Without Dependent Children on Psychological Distress.
Trial report in American journal of epidemiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effects of unconditional cash transfers on family processes and wellbeing among mothers with low incomes.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Physical and Mental health-Results from the Atlanta Paycheck Plus Experiment.The Milbank quarterly · 2024Trial
- Conducting Actionable Economic Policy Research to Address Community Violence Inequities.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- The Earned Income Tax Credit and short-term changes in financial strain and drug use.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health - a review of studies in the United States.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Review
- The effect of the US Child Tax Credit advance payments in 2021 on adolescent mental health: Changes in depression symptoms and suicidality.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease: a causal perspective.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2024Review
- Examining standardized consumer-generated social determinants of health and resilience data supported by Omaha System terminology.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
- Unconditional cash transfers and mental health symptoms among parents with low incomes: Evidence from the 2021 child tax credit.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Futureproofing Social Support Policies for Population Health.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- Invited Commentary: Conducting and Emulating Trials to Study Effects of Social Interventions.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Courtin and Muennig Respond to "Trials of Social Determinants".American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- A New Agenda for Optimizing Investments in Community Mental Health and Reducing Disparities.The American journal of psychiatry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Antipoverty policies have the potential to improve mental health. We conducted a randomized trial (Paycheck Plus Health Study Randomized Controlled Trial, New York, New York) to investigate whether a 4-fold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Americans without dependent children would reduce psychological distress relative to the current federal credit. Between 2013 and 2014, a total of 5,968 participants were recruited; 2,997 were randomly assigned to the treatment group and 2,971 were assigned to the control group. Survey data were collected 32 months postrandomization (n = 4,749). Eligibility for the program increased employment by 1.9 percentage points and after-bonus earnings by 6% ($635/year), on average, over the 3 years of the study. Treatment was associated with a marginally statistically significant decline in psychological distress, as measured by the 6-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, relative to the control group (score change = -0.30 points, 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.63, 0.03; P = 0.072). Women in the treated group experienced a half-point reduction in psychological distress (score change = -0.55 points, 95% CI: -0.97, -0.13; P = 0.032), and noncustodial parents had a 1.36-point reduction (95% CI: -2.24, -0.49; P = 0.011). Expansion of a large antipoverty program to individuals without dependent children reduced psychological distress for women and noncustodial parents-the groups that benefitted the most in terms of increased after-bonus earnings.
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