The Earned Income Tax Credit and Expected Social Security Retirement Benefits Among Low-Income Women: Working Paper 2012-06
Expansions in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) are associated with increases in formal employment and increases in long-term year-over-year growth in earnings for single mothers. In this study, we examine whether expansions in the EITC are likely to lead to increases in Social Security retirement benefits for less-educated women (those likely to be affected by the EITC) by increasing their employment and earnings when young. The increases in benefits could occur through two channels: First, as the EITC pulls additional less-educated women into market work, those women may accrue more
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2012-03-05
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Authors: | Dahl, Molly ; DeLeire, Thomas ; Schwabish, Jonathan ; Smeeding, Timothy |
Institutions: | Congressional Budget Office, United States Congress |
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