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The Impact of Family Tax Benefits on Children's Health and Educational Outcomes

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  • Michael Baker
  • Kourtney Koebel
  • Mark Stabile

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We leverage recent income support reforms for families with children in Canada to investigate the impact of child benefits on child health and educational outcomes. Using administrative school data from British Columbia linked to parents' tax files, we find evidence that increased family benefit generosity improved children's mental health, but little evidence of any change in test scores from standardized exams. Our results suggest that most of the mental health effect is concentrated among girls and that relative improvements in mental health were larger among children in higher-income families.

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  • Michael Baker & Kourtney Koebel & Mark Stabile, 2024. "The Impact of Family Tax Benefits on Children's Health and Educational Outcomes," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 114, pages 429-434, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:114:y:2024:p:429-34
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20241105
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    JEL classification:

    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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