The Earned Income Tax Credit and food consumption patterns

Leslie McGranahan and Diane W. Schanzenbach

The Earned Income Tax Credit is unique among social programs in that benefits are not paid out evenly across the calendar year. We exploit this feature of the EITC to investigate how the credit influences the food expenditure patterns of eligible households. We find that eligible households spend relatively more on healthy items including fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, and dairy products during the months when most refunds are paid.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	McGranahan, Leslie ; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore
Publisher:	Chicago, Ill. : Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Subject:	Earned Income Tax Credit \| Obesity \| Healthy Eating \| Food Expenditures \| Lebensmittelkonsum \| Food consumption \| Steuervergünstigung \| Tax incentive \| Ernährungsverhalten \| Eating habit \| Einkommensteuer \| Income tax \| Privater Konsum \| Private consumption \| Ernährung \| Nutrition \| Körpergewicht \| Body weight

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (32, 5 S.) graph. Darst.
Series:	Working papers / Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. - Chicago, Ill. : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1936-5276, ZDB-ID 2186680-6. - Vol. 2013-14
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/96640 [Handle]
Classification:	H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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