Athreya, Kartik B.; Reilly, Devin; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2014
of the EITC necessarily protects its primary class of recipients, unskilled single mothers, against major risks they face … counterfactual in which it is completely eliminated. We find that the EITC provides substantial insurance to unskilled single mothers … incentives to work: The model suggests that the EITC increases the labor supply of unskilled single mothers substantially at the …