Abstract

We thank Rojas-Saunero et al. for their commentary (1) on our article, which assessed the mental health effects of expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income Americans without dependent children in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) (2). We agree that evaluating the health effects of experimental social interventions presents challenges that extend beyond those of, for example, drug trials. As Rojas-Saunero et al. point out, follow-up was 69% at 3 years into our study (2), so we do not know how the other 31% of participants would have responded to the intervention. Provided that there is no differential attrition, it is not implausible to assume that treatment effects were observed at random. Linkages to administrative data can both fill in these gaps for trials in progress and be used to assess the long-term impacts of trials conducted in the past (3)....

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