No Evidence the Child Tax Credit Expansion Had an Effect on the Well-Being and Mental Health of Parents
Moderate-to-large cash transfers have been found to improve subjective well-being and mental health. In the case of the recent Child Tax Credit expansion, there was no evidence that it had a significant short-term impact on measures of life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression symptomology among adult recipients and the authors speculate that this may be due to the expansion’s temporary nature.
California's Paid Family Leave Law Improves Maternal Psychological Health
We researched the effect of California's paid family leave policy on maternal postpartum psychological distress. Paid family leave is associated with improved mental health for California mothers, suggesting that expansions of state or federal paid family leave policies have the potential to improve maternal postpartum health.