{"id":8042,"date":"2019-05-19T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:40:03","slug":"2019-research-marcil-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2019\/05\/19\/2019-research-marcil-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Community and Health Equity through Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Financial Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n<p><span>\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-basic has-title post-20429 profile type-profile status-publish hentry profile-field-bu-urbanist profile-field-camed\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/lucy-marcil\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-basic\"><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2019\/05\/Lucy-Marcil-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-basic\">Lucy Marcil<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-basic\">Associate Professor, Pediatrics<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Co-Principal Investigator<\/h3>\n<p><span>\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-basic post-2605 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/yoonsook-ha\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-basic\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-basic\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ioc\/files\/2015\/08\/BWS_0893-copy-1024x641-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-basic\">Yoonsook Ha<\/h6>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the link between income and health, few interventions to reduce health disparities have provided financial services directly targeting the needs of families living in poverty to improve health. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a tax credit for low-income, working families and the most effective anti-poverty policy in the US, improves maternal mental health and infant birth outcomes. However, over 20% of eligible families do not claim the credit\u2014and most who do fall prey to for-profit tax preparers, resulting in $1.75 billion lost in fees. The investigators will implement and evaluate a service intervention to promote health and health equity by increasing financial stability in the highest poverty neighborhoods in Boston. They will partner with the Epiphany School to provide free tax preparation and financial capabilities services and examine the impact of such services on receipt of the EITC, family financial stability, and health.<\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<p>Alexander, S. P., Kim, I. C., Hatcher, C., Suh, H. S., Ha, Y., &amp; Marcil, L. E. (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/jrnldbp\/Fulltext\/2022\/09000\/Embedding_Financial_Services_in_Frequented,.12.aspx\">Embedding Financial Services in Frequented, Trusted Settings: Building on Families\u2019 Pre-existing Economic Mobility Efforts<\/a>. <em>Journal of Developmental &amp; Behavioral Pediatrics<\/em>, 10-1097.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/research\/seedgrants\/research-in-progress\/\"><em>View more projects funded through our Early Stage Urban Research Awards<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Despite the link between income and health, few interventions to reduce health disparities have provided financial services directly targeting the needs of families living in poverty to improve health. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a tax credit for low-income, working families and the most effective anti-poverty policy in the US, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15794,"featured_media":20432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,18],"tags":[123,121,122,110,119,120,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20433,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/20433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}