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Labor Supply Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit : Evidence from Wisconsin Supplemental Benefit for Families with Three Children
Cancian, Maria; Levinson, Arik - 2021
the EITC on employment. In contrast, our cross-state comparison examines a larger difference in EITC subsidy rates, uses …
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Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit
Eissa, Nada; Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2021
the standard deduction for head of household filers, are predicted by economic theory to have reinforced the impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248529
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Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
Hotz, V. Joseph; Scholz, John Karl - 2021
This paper examines the employment effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC). We use a unique dataset, created by matching administrative data from public assistance records, unemployment insurance records, and federal tax returns for a sample of California residents. We conduct a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240337
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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses : A Sufficient Statistics Approach
Kroft, Kory - 2015
This paper reassesses whether the optimal income tax program features an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or a Negative Income Tax (NIT) at the bottom of the income distribution, in the presence of unemployment and wage responses to taxation. The paper makes two key contributions. First, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011109
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The Optimal Treatment of Tax Expenditures
Saez, Emmanuel - 2021
subsidy rates on earnings and the contribution good are expressed in terms of empirically estimable parameters and the … redistributive tastes of the government. The optimal subsidy on the contribution good is increasing in the size of the price … of the public good effect of the contribution good. Numerical simulations show that the optimal subsidy on contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223054
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Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax
Kaplow, Louis - 2021
The complexity of the income tax is an unending source of complaint. Compliance costs have received increasing attention and are estimated to be large. Yet most recognize that some degree of complexity is necessary if ability to pay is to be measured accurately. This article presents a framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245108
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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
Herbst, Chris M. - 2010
of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758196
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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions : Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
Herbst, Chris M. - 2012
A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112040
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Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition
Lemke, Robert J.; Witte, Ann Dryden; Queralt, Magaly; … - 2021
We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238699
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2021
This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249378