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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...

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Autores principales: Muennig, Peter, Vail, Daniel, Hakes, Jahn K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32819990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037051