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Health Affairs, 2022 The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the largest refundable tax credit for low-to-middle-income US families with children, has been shown to improve maternal and child health and reduce public spending on health.
Dana Thomson +3 more
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Social Science Research Network, 2012 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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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 Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Housing and Living Arrangements. [PDF]
Demography, 2019 As rents have risen and wages have not kept pace, housing affordability in the United States has declined over the last 15 years, impacting the housing and living arrangements of low-income families.
Pilkauskas N, Michelmore K.
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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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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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The long-term effects of childhood exposure to the earned income tax credit on health outcomes
Journal of Public Economics, 2020 The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a central component of the U.S. safety net, benefiting about 27 million families. Using variation in the federal and state EITC, this paper evaluates the long-term impact of EITC exposure during childhood on the ...
Breno Braga +2 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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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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Evaluation of the Swedish Earned Income Tax Credit [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Edmark, Karin +3 more
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