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The Earned Income Tax Credit

, 2001
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 provide a broad set of program statistics on its growth and coverage.
V. Joseph Hotz, John Karl Scholz
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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?

Journal of Labor Economics, 2020
Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children’s development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the maximum available EITC amount affects a broad array of ...
J. Bastian, L. Lochner
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Understanding Multiprogram Take-Up of Safety Net Programs Among California Families

AJPM Focus
Introduction: The U.S. safety net, which provides critical aid to households with low income, is composed of a patchwork of separate programs, and many people with low income benefit from accessing
Marisa M. Tsai, MS, MPH, Joseph A. Yeb, BS, Kaitlyn E. Jackson, MPH, Wendi Gosliner, DrPH, Lia C.H. Fernald, PhD, MBA, Rita Hamad, MD, PhD   +5 more
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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, Liang, Che-Yuan, Mörk, Eva, Selin, Håkan   +3 more
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole, Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Kamala Kaghoma Christian, Zoumana Bamba, Tahirou Abdoulaye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing a Work-Friendly Tax System [PDF]

, 2004
[Excerpt] Taxes tend to influence individual choices between labor and leisure, and high effective marginal tax rates on earned income tend to discourage work.
Forman, Jonathan Barry
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Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt, Kay Cook, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anti-poverty policy and health: Attributes and diffusion of state earned income tax credits across U.S. states from 1980 to 2020.

PLoS ONE, 2020
PurposeThe U.S. federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is often considered the most effective antipoverty program for families in the U.S., leading to a variety of improved outcomes such as educational attainment, work incentives, economic activity ...
Kelli A Komro, Phenesse Dunlap, Nolan Sroczynski, Melvin D Livingston, Megan A Kelly, Dawn Pepin, Sara Markowitz, Shelby Rentmeester, Alexander C Wagenaar   +8 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Earned Income Tax Credit: Lessons Learned [PDF]

, 2007
Highlights lessons from the foundation's tax preparation campaign to encourage low-income workers to file for the EITC, including lessons in engaging policy makers, improving the quality of services, using innovative strategies, and building ...
Tom Waldron
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