Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit in Early Childhood and Family Wealth
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021 Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a cohort of individuals born between 2000 and 2011, we examine whether exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in early childhood (birth to age five) affects family wealth in middle childhood (ages six
Katherine Michelmore, Leonard M. Lopoo
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The Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
, 2003 Since its inception in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has grown into the largest, Federally-funded means-tested cash assistance program in the United States. In this chapter, we review the political history of the EITC, its rules and goals and
John Karl Scholz, V. Joseph Hotz
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Intimate Partner Violence. [PDF]
J Interpers Violence, 2022 Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health problem in the United States with adverse consequences for affected individuals and families.
Edmonds AT +6 more
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Effects of changes in earned income tax credit: Time-series analyses of Washington DC [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2019 Poverty has numerous deleterious effects on health, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the major policy tool used to alleviate poverty in the U.S.
Alexander C. Wagenaar +3 more
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Can antipoverty programmes save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2020 Objective To estimate the impact of state-level supplements of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on mortality in the USA. The EITC supplements the wages of lower-income workers by providing larger returns when taxes are filed.Setting Nationwide sample ...
Peter Muennig, Daniel Vail, Jahn K Hakes
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The Health Effects Of Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit: Results From New York City. [PDF]
Health Aff (Millwood), 2020 Antipoverty policies may hold promise as tools to improve health and reduce mortality rates among low-income Americans. We examined the health effects of the New York City Paycheck Plus randomized controlled trial.
Courtin E +5 more
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Improving population health by reducing poverty: New York’s Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2017 Despite the established relationship between adverse health outcomes and low socioeconomic status, researchers rarely test the link between health improvements and poverty-alleviating economic policies.
Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Peter S. Arno
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Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 We develop a new approach for the identification of Pareto‐improving tax reforms. This approach yields necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Pareto‐improving reform directions. A main insight is that “Two brackets are enough”: When the system cannot be improved by altering tax rates in one or two income brackets, then there is no ...
Bierbrauer, Felix +2 more
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Earned Income Tax Credit and Youth Violence: Findings from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. [PDF]
Prev Sci, 2022 Dalve K +6 more
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Racial Differences in the Association between the U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit and Birthweight. [PDF]
Womens Health Issues, 2022 Batra A, Karasek D, Hamad R.
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