Skip to main content

Table 5 Effect findings by child health outcome

From: The impact of income-support interventions on life course risk factors and health outcomes during childhood: a systematic review in high income countries

Child outcome

Intervention

Positive impact1

Negative impact2

Null effect

Birth weight

 Almond et al. [34]

Conditional cash transfer

•

  

 Baker et al. [38]

Earned Income Tax Credit

•

  

 Brownell et al. [23]

Unconditional cash transfer

•

•a

 

 Chung et al. [33]

Unconditional cash transfer

•

  

 Leyland et al. [22]

Unconditional cash transfer

  

•

 Hamad et al. 2015 [29]

Earned Income Tax Credit

  

•

 Hoynes et al. [31]

Earned Income Tax Credit

•

  

 Komro 2019 et al. [26]

Earned income Tax Credit

•

  

 Komro 2016 et al. [36]

Minimum wage salary

•

  

 Rosenthal et al. [35]

Conditional Cash Transfer

•

  

 Strully et al. [27]

Earned income Tax Credit

•

  

 Wehby et al. [37]

Minimum Wage Salary

•

  

 Wicks-Lim et al. [32]

Earned income Tax Credit

•

  

Child mental health

 Hamad et al. 2016 [30]

Earned Income Tax Credit

•

  

 Morris et al. [24]

Conditional cash Transfer

  

•

 Milligan et al. [25]

Unconditional cash transfer

•

  
  1. 1.Effect in the expected direction (i.e. health outcome improved after the intervention)
  2. 2.Effect in the opposite direction expected (i.e. health outcome worsened after the intervention)
  3. a.In Large for Gestational age only an increased risk was found