Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program

MJ Bailey, H Hoynes, M Rossin-Slater… - The Review of …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven
increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 …

Is the social safety net a long-term investment? Large-scale evidence from the food stamps program

We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001
to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's …

Safety net investments in children

HW Hoynes, DW Schanzenbach - 2018 - nber.org
In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-
safety net programs—including Medicaid, EITC, CTC, SNAP, and AFDC/TANF—and how …

The grandkids aren't alright: the intergenerational effects of prenatal pollution exposure

J Colmer, J Voorheis - 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
Evidence shows that environmental quality shapes human capital at birth with long-run
effects on health and welfare. Do these effects, in turn, affect the economic opportunities of …

Breaking the cycle? Intergenerational effects of an antipoverty program in early childhood

A Barr, CR Gibbs - Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Despite substantial evidence that resources and outcomes are transmitted across
generations, there has been limited inquiry into the extent to which antipoverty programs …

[HTML][HTML] Cash transfers before pregnancy and infant health

L González, S Trommlerová - Journal of Health Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We estimate the impact of a cash transfer targeting new mothers on their subsequent
children's health outcomes at birth. We exploit the unexpected introduction of a generous …

What is the added value of preschool for poor children? Long-term and intergenerational impacts and interactions with an infant health intervention

M Rossin-Slater, M Wüst - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2020 - aeaweb.org
We study the impact of preschool targeted at children from low-income families over the life
cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with an infant health intervention …

Four years later: insurance coverage and access to care continue to diverge between ACA Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states

S Miller, LR Wherry - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019 - aeaweb.org
This paper evaluates the impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions four years
after implementation using data from the 2010-2017 National Health Interview Survey. We …

Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Program improve child health and reduce poverty but face threats

J Currie, A Chorniy - Academic pediatrics, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, the United States greatly expanded eligibility for public health
insurance under the Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Program programs. This …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal human capital and infants' health outcomes: Evidence from minimum dropout age policies in the US

H Noghanibehambari, M Salari, N Tavassoli - SSM-Population Health, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to examine the causal relationship of maternal
education and infants' health outcomes. Using birth certificate data over the years 1970 …