This paper evaluates the effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC) on poor families. Exploiting state …

During 1984-96, welfare and tax policy changed dramatically. The Earned Income Tax Credit was expanded, welfare …

credit for R&D stimulates a dollar of additional R&D …

Recent proposals to expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) are at the center of current policy discussions in the United … States. We study the fiscal cost of three such proposals that would expand refundability of the credit to low-income children …, increase the maximum credit amount, and/or eliminate the income phase-out to make the credit universal. For each proposal, we …

The proposed change under the American Families Plan (AFP) to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) Child Tax Credit (CTC …) would increase maximum benefit amounts to $3,000 or $3,600 per child (up from $2,000 per child) and make the full credit … the Earned Income Tax Credit) with a universal basic income-type benefit, the CTC expansion reduces the return to working …