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The Effects of the Monthly and Lump-Sum Child Tax Credit Payments on Food and Housing Hardship

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  • Zachary Parolin
  • Elizabeth Ananat
  • Sophie Collyer
  • Megan Curran
  • Christopher Wimer

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We investigate the effects of the expanded 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) on material hardship among households with children over April 2021–May 2022, using the Census Household Pulse Survey and difference-in-difference analyses of household types with different eligibility. Monthly CTC payments (July–December 2021) reduced food insufficiency by at least 2.4 pp (20 percent); the spring 2022 lump-sum payment reduced the likelihood that households were behind on rent by at least 1.2 pp (10 percent). Results are consistent with spending lump sums differently from monthly payments, the former going disproportionately toward arrears and the latter toward ongoing food/nutrition costs.

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  • Zachary Parolin & Elizabeth Ananat & Sophie Collyer & Megan Curran & Christopher Wimer, 2023. "The Effects of the Monthly and Lump-Sum Child Tax Credit Payments on Food and Housing Hardship," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 113, pages 406-412, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:113:y:2023:p:406-12
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20231088
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    1. Pignatti, Clemente & Parolin, Zachary, 2023. "The Effects of an Unconditional Cash Transfer on Mental Health in the United States," IZA Discussion Papers 16237, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Natasha V. Pilkauskas & Katherine Michelmore & Nicole Kovski & H. Luke Shaefer, 2024. "The expanded Child Tax Credit and economic wellbeing of low-income families," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 37(4), pages 1-35, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • H31 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Household
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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