Dr. Tim Bruckner, University of California, Irvine, Associate Professor of Public Health
Title: Cash Transfers, Infant Health, and Neighborhood Opportunity
Abstract: Much literature examining public programs in the US claims that income transfers causally improve infant health as well as child opportunity. I examine two recent transfer initiatives, at varying times of infant/child development, to test this claim. The first examines birth outcomes to infants exposed in utero to the federal Child Tax Credit started in July 2021. The second leverages a randomized controlled trial to examine parental residential mobility to "high opportunity" neighborhoods following randomization to a large cash gift when their infant is born (i.e., Baby's First Years). I will discuss the nuanced results as well as their implications for understanding socioeconomic disparities in infant and child health.
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