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American Economic Review Vol. 107 No. 2 2017

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply

Gordon B. Dahl1; Lance Lochner2

1 Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0508, La Jolla, CA 92093 (e-mail: ) · 2 Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, 1151  Richmond Street North, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada (e-mail: )

Abstract

Dahl and Lochner (2012) provides some of the first causal evidence of the effects of family income on child achievement using changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit. Unfortunately, a coding error in the creation of total family income affects the first stage estimates and inflates the instrumental variable (IV) estimates. Importantly, it does not affect the reduced-form estimates or alter statistical significance of the IV estimates. This response shows that correcting this error does not alter the core findings or main message of the paper.

DOI
10.1257/aer.20161329
Volume
107
Issue
2
Pages
629-631
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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