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Effect of EITC on Biological Markers of Aging, Health and Mortality

NCT03226548 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1350

Last updated 2022-04-06

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Summary

Paycheck Plus (PP) is a randomized controlled experiment (RCT) that explores the health and longevity effects associated with increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). EITC is a national program that provides tax credits to low-income, disproportionately minority workers who file taxes. EITC is politically popular, having received bipartisan support. The EITC, along with state supplemental programs, have 7 million American families out of poverty. The investigators' preliminary data analyses show that the EITC has had large population health impacts, reversing declines in self rated health and survival among the poorest Americans.

Conditions

  • Poverty
  • Tax Policy

Interventions

OTHER

Paycheck Plus

A four-fold increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • MDRC

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Columbia University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Peter Muennig, MD · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-20
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2021-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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