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Social Sciences, 2023 Advocates for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) argue that it would provide citizens with a basic foundation for financial security, boost the economy, alleviate poverty, encourage entrepreneurship, reduce crime, and insulate the employment sector against ...
Leah Hamilton +5 more
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Social Science Research Network, 2008 Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and ...
Gordon B. Dahl, Lance Lochner
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Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Taking the Long View
Tax Policy and the Economy, 2020 The earned income tax credit (EITC) is the cornerstone US anti-poverty program for families with children, typically lifting millions of children out of poverty each year.
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, M. Strain
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The Theory of Planned Behavior and the Earned Income Tax Credit
Journal of Financial Therapy, 2015 The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) seeks to reduce poverty and provide the resources necessary for an individual to become self-sufficient. The EITC achieves this annually by lifting millions of households above the poverty level through income ...
Lloyd Zimmerman +3 more
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 This paper discusses social welfare policy constraints in the light of different political debates that confront American public policy space. The paper utilizes the concept of policy drift to figure out deficiencies in the implementation of Affordable ...
Eze Simpson Osuagwu
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The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happines [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and Households to study the impact of the 1990 federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being.
Boyd-Swan, Casey +3 more
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REDISTRIBUTION AND TAX EXPENDITURES: THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT [PDF]
National Tax Journal, 2011 This paper examines the distributional and behavioral effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). We chart the growth of the program over time, and argue that several expansions show that real responses to taxes are important. We use tax data to show the distribution of benefits by income and family size, and examine the impacts of hypothetical ...
Nada Eissa, Hilary Hoynes
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State earned income tax credits and depression and alcohol misuse among women with children
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 About 30% of single mothers in the US live at or below the poverty line. Poverty is associated with higher risk of depression and substance use. We investigated associations between state earned income tax credit (EITC) policies and reported depressive ...
Erin R. Morgan +4 more
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2018 Financial stability depends on emergency savings. Low-wage workers regularly experience drops in income and unexpected expenses. Households with savings absorb these financial shocks but most low-income Americans lack rainy day savings. Therefore, even a
Sarah Halpern-Meekin +3 more
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the General Equilibrium Incidence of the Earned Income Tax Credit
, 2021 The Earned Income Tax Credit is a $67 billion tax expenditure that subsidizes 20% of all workers. Yet all prior analysis uses partial equilibrium assumptions on gross wages.
C. Watson
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