@article {655517,
	title = {The Health Effects of Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit: Results from New York City},
	journal = {Health Affairs},
	volume = {39},
	number = {7},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {1149-56},
	abstract = {Antipoverty policies may hold promise as tools to improve health and reduce mortality rates among low-income Americans. We examined the health effects of the New York City Paycheck Plus randomized controlled trial. Paycheck Plus tests the impact of a potential fourfold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Americans without dependent children. Starting in 2015, Paycheck Plus offered 5,968 study participants a credit of up to $2,000 at tax time (treatment) or the standard credit of about $500 (control). Health-related quality of life and other outcomes for a representative subset of these participants (n\&nbsp;= 3,289) were compared to those of a control group thirty-two months after randomization. The intervention had a modest positive effect on employment and earnings, particularly among women. It had no effect on health-related quality of life for the overall sample, but women realized significant improvements.},
	url = {https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01556},
	author = {Emilie Courtin and Kali Aloisi and Cynthia Miller and Heidi L. Allen and Lawrence F. Katz and Peter Muennig}
}
