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Kali Aloisi is a master's degree student in the Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. At the time the study was conducted, she was a research assistant at MDRC, in New York City.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Jul;39(7):1149-1156. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01556.
Antipoverty policies may hold promise as tools to improve health and reduce mortality rates among low-income Americans. We examined the health effects of the New York City Paycheck Plus randomized controlled trial. Paycheck Plus tests the impact of a potential fourfold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Americans without dependent children. Starting in 2015, Paycheck Plus offered 5,968 study participants a credit of up to $2,000 at tax time (treatment) or the standard credit of about $500 (control). Health-related quality of life and other outcomes for a representative subset of these participants ( = 3,289) were compared to those of a control group thirty-two months after randomization. The intervention had a modest positive effect on employment and earnings, particularly among women. It had no effect on health-related quality of life for the overall sample, but women realized significant improvements.
扶贫政策可能有望成为改善健康状况和降低美国低收入人群死亡率的工具。我们研究了纽约市 Paycheck Plus 随机对照试验的健康影响。Paycheck Plus 测试了为没有受抚养子女的美国低收入人群将所得税抵免额增加潜在四倍的影响。从 2015 年开始，Paycheck Plus 在纳税时为 5968 名研究参与者提供高达 2000 美元的信用额度（治疗）或标准信用额度约 500 美元（对照）。在随机分组三十二个月后，对这些参与者的一个代表性子集（n = 3289）的健康相关生活质量和其他结果与对照组进行了比较。该干预措施对就业和收入产生了适度的积极影响，特别是对女性而言。它对整体样本的健康相关生活质量没有影响，但女性的健康状况显著改善。
