The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit. Discussion Paper No. 1361-09.

By Gordon B. Dahl, Lance Lochner. 2009

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• The economic costs of childhood poverty in the United States (2008, unknown): “For instance, Dahl and Lochner (2006) use the timing and location of extensions of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) to estimate the effects of higher income on children’s achievement in poor families, while Morris, Duncan, and Rodrigues (2006) use data from various random-assignment welfare-to-wor”
• Early-childhood poverty and adult attainment, behavior, and health. (2010, unknown): “Such is the case with the study by Dahl and Lochner (2005) , who take advantage of the fact that the United States increased the generosity of its Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program during the 1990s.”
• The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit (2012, unknown): “See Appendix A for further details.”
• The earned income tax credit and fertility (2009, methodology): “Using the cohort from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data, Dahl and Lochner (2005) find that 39% of mothers eligible for the EITC are high school dropouts, 48% have a high school degree, and 14% have some college.”
• Investing in Our Young People (2010, unknown): “presented by Duncan & Brooks-Gunn (1997), Morris, Duncan, & Clark-Kauffman (2005), Duncan & Kalil (2006), and Dahl & Lochner (2005) that the level of family income in the early stages of childhood has some effect on the level of ability and achievement of the children.”
• Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017, unknown): “…of health and mental health conditions for adults and children, as well as to reductions in smoking and other behaviors detrimental to health, improved parenting, and better school outcomes (Dahl and Lochner, 2005; Evans and Garthwaite, 2014; Hamad and Rehkopf, 2015, 2016; Strully et al., 2010).”
• Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents (2007, unknown): “Dahl and Lochner (2006) estimate that a $1,000 increase in family income improves performance on the math test score by 2.1% of a standard deviation (3.6% for reading).”
• Birth Spacing and Sibling Outcomes (2012, unknown): “17 SD—an effect comparable to estimates of the effect of birth order, and three times the effect of increasing annual family income by $1,000 (”