Cumulative Payments Through the Earned Income Tax Credit Program in Childhood and Criminal Conviction During Adolescence in the US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Childhood poverty is associated with poor health and behavioral outcomes. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), first implemented in 1975, is the largest cash transfer program for working families with low income in the US.

Objective

To assess whether cumulative EITC payments received during childhood are associated with the risk of criminal conviction during adolescence.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cohort study, the analytic sample consisted of US children enrolled in the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth. The children were born between 1979 and 1998 and were interviewed as adolescents (age 15-19 years) between 1994 and 2016. Data analyses were performed from May 2021 to September 2022.

Exposure

Cumulative simulated EITC receive

SUBMITTER: Moe CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9675000 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature