Can antipoverty programmes save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA
Objective To estimate the impact of state-level supplements of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on mortality in the USA. The EITC supplements the wages of lower-income workers by providing larger returns when taxes are filed.Setting Nationwide sample spanning 25 cohorts of people across every sta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020-08-01
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| Series: | BMJ Open |
| Online Access: | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/8/e037051.full |