Chen, Y., D. Thompson, and L. Gennetian. "Latino and Asian Households Were Less Likely to Receive Initial COVID-19 Stimulus Payments, a Trend That Reversed for Later Payments." Washington, DC: Child Trends, December 2021.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Equity-Focused Policy Research grant program funded action-oriented research to build on strategies to increase equitable access to supports for families with young children, including income supports, nutrition supports, and early care and education. Following is a description of the work that has been accomplished in these three areas.
Income supports
Families with low income often do not have access to the basic necessities and resources to foster the nurturing experiences and stimulating environments that young children need to thrive. Income supports may reduce poverty in households with young children, provide critical resources to help families support children’s development, diminish families’ stress levels, and thereby advance health equity. This grant funded research on income supports for low-income families with young children, including tax credits and transfer programs, to inform policymaking and encourage more equitable access to these supports.
Early care and education
Increasing access to early care and education (ECE) may reduce poverty in households with young children by supporting parental employment; provide critical resources to help families support children’s development; diminish families’ stress levels; and thereby advance health equity. This grant sought to fund research that highlighted policy- and practice-related reasons for disparities in access to ECE, and which identified current policy or programmatic solutions or needed changes that would promote equity.
Nutrition supports
A key contributor to children’s healthy development is sufficient access to healthy foods, though research demonstrates that children from low-income households and racial and ethnic minority children experience nutritional disparities. This grant funded research on federal nutrition support programs that serve low-income families with young children, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).
Cross-cutting policy areas
This grant funded a body of research that illuminates strategies and policies that ensure families’ equitable access to key resources for supporting their children’s healthy development. The cross-cutting grants fund research that cut across policy domains, revealing the way that ECE access, income supports, and nutrition supports interact and potentially reinforce one another to promote families’ well being.
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Thomson, D., Y. Chen, L. Gennetian, and L. Basurto. "Earned Income Tax Credit Receipt by Hispanic Families with Children: State Outreach and Demographic Factors." Health Affairs, vol. 41, no. 12, December 2022, pp. 1725-1734.
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Thomson, D., Y. Chen, L. Gennetian, and L. Basurto. "Lower Rates of EITC Receipt Among Hispanic Families Limit Its Potential to Reduce Health Disparities." Prepared for Health Affairs virtual event on Equitable Social Supports, December 2022.
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Chen, Y., D. Thomson, and L. Gennetian. "Disparities in Receipt of Stimulus and Unemployment Benefits Among Hispanic Households with Children During COVID-19." Presentation prepared for the Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, January 2022.
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Chen, Y., D. Thomson, and L. Gennetian. "The Impact of State EITC Policy and Practices on EITC Participation among Hispanic Families with Children." Presented at the virtual Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2021.
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Chen, Y., D. Thomson, and L. Gennetian. "Predicting Uptake of the Earned Income Tax Credit Among Hispanic Families with Young Children." Presented at the virtual Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), 2020.
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Gennetian, L., D. Thomson, and Y. Chen. "Hispanic Families and U.S. Anti-poverty Programs: Policy, Practice, and Uptake." Presented at the virtual Duke University Population Research Institute Seminar Series, September 2020.
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Regents of the University of California: Berkeley
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Hawkins, J. "Simulating Relief Payments: An Interactive Model." March 2021.
Regents of the University of California: Berkeley, School of Public Health
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Fernald, L., W. Gosliner, and R. Hamad. "Exploring Perceptions and Use of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in California." Presentation at the virtual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Fall Conference, November 11, 2020.
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Hamad, R., and P.R. Lee. "The Earned Income Tax Credit and Health: Evidence and Opportunities." Presentation at the RELEVENT Action Research Symposium, January 14, 2021.
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