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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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Children's Indirect Exposure to the U.S. Justice System : Evidence from Longitudinal Links between Survey and Administrative Data

Finlay, Keith; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Street, Brittany - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or co-resident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been...

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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Effects of the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Young Adults on Material Wellbeing

Lee, Jiwan; Michelmore, Katherine; Pilkauskas, Natasha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In 2021, the U.S. Congress temporarily expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without a qualifying child (childless EITC), to help counteract the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-wage working adults. This expansion roughly tripled the maximum benefits for qualifying filers and...

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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration, and indicators of depression and loneliness rise...

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Eviction and Poverty in American Cities

Collinson, Robert; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and high public expenditures related to homelessness. We...

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Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

groups than the survey data suggest, through higher program receipt and greater poverty reduction. These biases in survey …

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The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power : Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives

Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Products with negative externalities are often subject to regulations that limit competition. The single-product case may suggest that it is irrelevant for aggregate welfare whether output is restricted via corrective taxes or limiting competition. However, when products are differentiated...

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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...

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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...

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