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The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings

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, Sara Sternberg Greene, Ezra Levin, Kathryn Edin   +3 more
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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, Heather D. Hill, Stephen J. Mooney, Frederick P. Rivara, Ali Rowhani-Rahbar   +4 more
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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) [PDF]

, 2015
We review research on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), focusing on work appearing since the Hotz and Scholz (2003) review. Recent work has confirmed earlier findings that labor supply effects are positive for single mothers, smaller and negative for married mothers, and essentially nonexistent for men.
Austin Nichols, Jesse Rothstein
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The Effects of Refundable and Nonrefundable State Earned Income Tax Credit Programs on Health of Mothers of Two or More Children.

Women's health issues, 2021
BACKGROUND More than one-half of U.S. states have enacted Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) programs. Yet little is known about the effects of state EITC programs on the health of recipients.
Haobing Qian, G. Wehby
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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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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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Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Hospital Admissions for Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma, 1995-2013. [PDF]

Public Health Rep, 2017
Klevens J, Schmidt B, Luo F, Xu L, Ports KA, Lee RD.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

An Earned Income Tax Credit in the Netherlands: Simulations with the MIMIC Model [PDF]

De Economist, 2000
In recent policy discussions in the Netherlands, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been put forward as an instrument to reduce the unemployment rate among low-skilled workers. Using MIMIC, CPB's applied general equilibrium model for the Netherlands, this article discusses the economic impact of different forms of the EITC.
van Oers, H., de Mooij, R.A., Graafland, J.J., Boone, J.   +3 more
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
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