Association of Expanded Child Tax Credit Payments With Child Abuse and Neglect Emergency Department Visits.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Poverty has long been associated with a higher risk for child maltreatment, and recent research suggests that income support policies are associated with reduced child abuse and neglect. However, income supports tied to employment cannot separate the associations of income from those of employment.

Objective

To estimate the short-term association of universal and unconditional income payments to parents with child abuse and neglect.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study, variation in the timing of the 2021 expanded child tax credit (CTC) advance payments was used to determine whether receiving unconditional income is associated with child abuse and neglect. A fixed-effects approach was used to compare child abuse and neglect before

SUBMITTER: Bullinger LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9936349 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature