Table 2.
Effects of Presence and Generosity of Earned Income Tax Credit Laws, Low Educated Black Versus White Mothers
| Birth weight | p-Value black vs. white mothers | Birth weight <2500 g | p-Value black vs. white mothers | Gestation weeks | p-Value black vs. white mothers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | White | Black | White | Black | White | ||||
| Low EITC no refund | 16.120*** (5.926) | 9.380*** (3.446) | 0.1730 | −0.007*** (0.001) | −0.002** (0.001) | 0.0005 | 0.115*** (0.025) | 0.035 (0.027) | 0.0000 |
| Low EITC with refund | 19.342*** (6.830) | 18.219** (7.094) | 0.8410 | −0.009*** (0.003) | −0.005*** (0.002) | 0.1063 | 0.086 (0.056) | 0.016 (0.032) | 0.0274 |
| High EITC no refund | 19.572*** (5.132) | 10.462*** (3.894) | 0.0216 | −0.006** (0.003) | −0.002*** (0.001) | 0.0433 | 0.176*** (0.016) | 0.161*** (0.017) | 0.3000 |
| High EITC with refund | 37.164*** (7.967) | 28.400*** (6.923) | 0.2912 | −0.014*** (0.003) | −0.007*** (0.002) | 0.0181 | 0.148** (0.056) | 0.066** (0.031) | 0.0730 |
| Overall N | 29,269,997 | 29,269,997 | 29,290,045 | ||||||
| Race-specific N | 5,371,607 | 23,898,390 | 5,371,607 | 23,898,390 | 5,377,596 | 23,912,449 | |||
Robust, state-clustered standard errors in parentheses. *p<0.10, **p<0.05, ***p<0.01.
p-Values for the omnibus F-test of the statistical significance of the set of EITC coefficients for black differing from the white coefficients are 0.1839 for birth weight; 0.0048 for birth weight <2500 g; and 0.0001 for gestation.