Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Parental Income on Child Health and Well Being

父母收入对儿童健康和福祉影响的实验证据

• 批准号: 10683254
• 负责人: Sarah Marie Miller
• 金额: $ 42.91万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10683254
• 关键词: Accident and Emergency department; Achievement; Adult; Affect; Age; Aptitude Tests; Basic Science; Behavior; Caring; Child; Child Development; Child Health; Child Mental Health; Child Rearing; Child Welfare; Childhood; Conflict (Psychology); Control Groups; Data; Data Set; Development; Economics; Education; Educational Status; Emotional; Environment; Expenditure; Family; Health; Health Benefit; Healthcare; Home environment; Hospitals; Household; Hyperactivity; Income; Individual; Inequality; Investments; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Expectancy; Low income; Measures; Medical; Mental Health; Modeling; Nature; Neighborhoods; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting Education; Parents; Participant; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Policy Maker; Public Health; Quasi-experiment; Random Allocation; Randomized; Randomized, Controlled Trials; Research; Resources; Socioeconomic Status; Stress; Surveys; cognitive development; experience; experimental study; food security; genetic makeup; health disparity; health economics; health knowledge; inattention; intergenerational; peer; physical conditioning; transmission process; treatment group

Project Summary Disparities in health and well-being among children in families with different incomes emerge early in life. Children in poor families are born with worse health than their counterparts in higher income families, and this relationship between health and income becomes more pronounced through the life cycle. Children who experience worse health early in life also go on to have significantly lower educational attainment, health, and socio-economic status in adulthood. This relationship suggests that the intergenerational transmission of advantage that we observe within families could be driven by the good health that wealthy parents confer to their children early in life. Understanding how unequal parental incomes result in unequal health in childhood may therefore help us understand patterns of income inequality and intergenerational economic mobility more generally and also help policymakers make informed decisions about the efficacy of cash transfers. We propose to provide new evidence on the relationship between parental income and children's mental and physical health and well-being through the Y Combinator Research (YCR) Basic Income randomized controlled trial. The YCR experiment will provide $1,000 per month of supplemental income to a randomly-selected treatment group over a period of three years, with a control group receiving $50 per month over the same period. The 3,000 participants in the study have 3,640 children under the age 18 living in their household. We will survey participants about their children and leverage existing administrative datasets to obtain information on the impact of this income supplement on children's health outcomes. By comparing children of treatment group participants to control group participants, we will document how parental income affects the quality of the household environment and parental interactions (Aim 1), and investment in children's well-being including access to and use of medical care, food security, expenditures on enrichment and activities, neighborhood quality, and the quality of non-parental care (Aim 2) and childhood emotional, conduct, hyperactivity/inattention and peer relationship problems, pro-social behavior, achievement of developmental milestones, cognitive development and physical health (Aim 3). Our study will provide new, timely, and policy-relevant estimates on the impact of parental income on child health and well-being and the mechanisms through which this relationship operates.

项目摘要 有不同收入的家庭中健康和福祉的差异出现 生命的早期。贫穷家庭中的孩子天生的健康状况要比他们的同龄人还差 收入较高的家庭，健康与收入之间的这种关系变得更多 在整个生命周期中发音。早期健康状况更糟的孩子也在继续 大大降低了教育程度，健康和社会经济地位 成年。这种关系表明，优势的代际传播 我们在家庭内观察到的富裕父母会赋予的身体健康。 他们的孩子在生命的早期。了解不平等的父母收入导致不平等 因此，童年的健康可能有助于我们了解收入不平等的模式和 代际经济流动性更广泛，也有助于政策制定者使知情 关于现金转移功效的决定。我们建议提供有关 父母收入与儿童的身心健康之间的关系 通过Y组合研究（YCR）基本收入随机对照试验。 YCR 实验将为随机选择的每月1,000美元的补充收入提供 治疗组在三年内，对照组每月获得50美元 同一时期。研究中的3,000名参与者有3,640名18岁以下的儿童 在他们的家庭中。我们将调查参与者有关他们的孩子并利用现有的 管理数据集以获取有关此收入补充对的信息 儿童的健康结果。通过比较治疗组参与者的儿童控制 小组参与者，我们将记录父母收入如何影响家庭质量 环境和父母互动（AIM 1）以及对儿童福祉的投资 包括获得和使用医疗，粮食安全，富集支出和 活动，邻里质量以及非父母护理的质量（AIM 2）和童年 情感，行为，多动症/不注意和同伴关系问题，亲社会问题 行为，发展里程碑，认知发展和身体健康 （目标3）。我们的研究将对有关的新的，及时和政策的估计 父母对儿童健康和福祉的收入以及此的机制 关系运作。