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Three Essays on the Impact of Welfare Policies Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2016. Also: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/68370 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: University of Texas at Austin Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Child Development; Child Health; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Geocoded Data; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Insurance, Health; Medicaid/Medicare; State-Level Data/Policy; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The third chapter studies the EITC in the United States, which is a tax credit scheme that supplements earned income and has increased employment particularly for single mothers with high school level of education or below. Using the differential increase in 1993 in the tax credit generosity across families with one child and families with two or more children, I find that the program increased child health insurance coverage, especially through private health insurance. The analyses of the three programs demonstrate that welfare policies can indirectly benefit children's development and have positive effects in the long run, which should be included in their evaluation. |
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Thomas, Megan Deepti Philomena. Three Essays on the Impact of Welfare Policies. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2016.. |