Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Well-Being of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

By Kevin Milligan, M. Stabile. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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In Accounting

1. Elizabeth M. Caucutt
2. A. Monge-Naranjo
3. Lance Lochner
4. Michael Bernard Coelli
5. A. Solís

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Lance Lochner
2. Elizabeth M. Caucutt
3. A. Monge-Naranjo
4. Michael Bernard Coelli
5. A. Solís
6. J. McCrary
7. Aaron Chalfin

In Gender Studies

1. Lance Lochner
2. Elizabeth M. Caucutt
3. Michael Bernard Coelli

Citations in the corpus

• Human Capital Development before Age Five. NBER Working Paper No. 15827. (2010, neutral): “Milligan and Stabile (2008) go beyond Dahl and Lochner by examining effects on other indicators.”
• Does Household Income Affect children’s Outcomes? A Systematic Review of the Evidence (2020, background): “…resulting from variation in policy over time and across provinces, is found to positively affect maths scores while also (for boys) decreasing the likelihood of a learning difficulty diagnosis, but only for children of mothers with lower levels of lower education (Milligan and Stabile 2011).”
• 2017-03 Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family (2012, positive): “…studies demonstrate that exogenous increases in family income lead to real increases in child investments and improvements in child development (Løken 2010, Duncan, Morris and Rodrigues 2011, Milligan and Stabile 2011, Dahl and Lochner 2012, Løken, Mogstad and Wiswall 2012, Jones, et al. 2015).”
• Parental job loss and the education enrollment of youth (2011, background): “These studies include Blau (1999), Dahl and Lochner (2008), Duncan et al. (2004) and Milligan and Stabile (2008).”
• The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility (2014, neutral): “Milligan and Stabile (2011) find positive effects of child benefit programs in Canada, but their results are driven by strong positive effects in Quebec, a province where assistance programs consist of more than just income transfers, such as subsidized child care (Almond and Currie, 2011).”
• Credit Constraints in Education (2011, background): “More generally, recent studies show that exogenous increases in family income lead to improvements in early child development (e.g. Løken 2010, Løken, Mogstad and Wiswall 2010, Duncan, Morris and Rodrigues 2011, Milligan and Stabile 2011, and Dahl and Lochner, forthcoming).”
• Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II (2018, neutral): “Black et al. (2014) and Milligan and Stabile (2011) consider cash transfers that are targeted to children (a child care subsidy and a child allowance, respectively).”