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Effects of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credit Laws in the U.S. On Maternal Health Behaviors and Infant Health Outcomes
Markowitz, Sara - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of state-level Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) laws in the U.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on...
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Is the EITC Equivalent to an Nit? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
Rothstein, Jesse - 2010
transfer to low income single mothers is captured by employers through reduced wages. The transfer to employers is borne in …
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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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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth Among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - 2022
Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...
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A Working Model for Predicting the Consumption and Revenue Impacts of Large Increases in the U.S. Federal Cigarette Excise Tax
Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2021
This report describes an easily computable model of the relation between cigarette prices and cigarette consumption in the United States. The model is used to predict the revenue impacts of Federal excise tax hikes ranging from $0.45 to $1.76 per pack
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The Evolving Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market : The Covid Motherhood Penalty
Fairlie, Robert W.; Couch, Kenneth A.; Xu, Huanan - 2022
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
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The Impact of Removing Tax Preferences for U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production : Measuring Tax Subsidies by an Equivalent Price Impact Approach
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2016
This paper presents a novel methodology for estimating impacts on domestic supply of oil and natural gas arising from changes in the tax treatment of oil and gas production. It corrects a downward bias when the ratio of aggregate tax expenditures to domestic production is used to measure the...
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Optimal Income Transfers
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
A substantial literature addresses the design of transfer programs and policies, including the negative income tax, other means-tested transfers, the earned income tax credit, categorical assistance, and work inducements. This work is largely independent of that on the optimal nonlinear income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761400
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The Effect of Insurance Expansions on Smoking Cessation Medication Prescriptions : Evidence from ACA Medicaid Expansions
Maclean, Catherine - 2017
We explore the effects of recent Medicaid expansions on Medicaid-financed prescriptions for evidence-based smoking … increased smoking cessation prescriptions by 36% with heterogeneity across medication class. We provide evidence that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955444
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Is Smoking Inferior? Evidence from Variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit
Kenkel, Donald - 2014
In this paper we estimate the causal income elasticity of smoking participation, cessation, and cigarette demand … conditional upon participation. Using an instrumental variables (IV) estimation strategy we find that smoking appears to be a … consumed and a decrease in smoking cessation. The magnitude and direction of the changes in the income coefficients from our …
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