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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract The National School Lunch Program, the largest child nutrition initiative in the United States, provides free or reduced‐price lunches to low‐income children. However, the current eligibility criteria are based on household‐level metrics, potentially causing bias that does not adequately protect children in need.
Wanqi Liang +3 more
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Electronic Filing, Tax Preparers, and Participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
In 2002 more than 18 million low-income individual taxpayers received the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Despite its size, non-participation in this program is a concern and substantial effort is devoted by the IRS, local governments and many non ...
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Wojciech Kopczuk
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate +3 more
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Estimating the Short-Term Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Child Health. [PDF]
Am J Epidemiol, 2018 Hamad R, Collin DF, Rehkopf DH.
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The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Outcomes
Journal of Public Economics, 2020 Breno Braga +2 more
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Many policymakers are unwilling, or think that it is infeasible, to perform comprehensive cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of programmes in social policy arenas. What principles actually underlie CBA? An understanding is necessary to assess whether other evaluation methods are close enough to CBA to provide useful information on social efficiency ...
Aidan R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman
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Effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2017 Markowitz S +4 more
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