Annually, over 25 million people in the United States receive the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Nearly 5 … supplies evidence for the positive labor force participation effects of the EITC. However, little is known about the effects of … influence of EITC visibility and benefit levels on the wages of occupation groups with high shares of EITC eligible workers …

Tax Credit (EITC) program over the course of the 1990s as a source of exogenous variation in family income in order to ….The second chapter simulates the effect on New York State residents of an expansion of the EITC on employment, hours worked … excluding labor supply effects, the preferred behavioral results show that an expansion of the New York State EITC increases …

This paper explores the interaction between the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the cost-of-living faced by … single mothers. After the 1993 EITC expansion, we identify up to a 10 percentage point increase in labor force participation … EITC’s welfare-enhancing properties are undermined by the interaction of the program’s fixed national rules and geographic …

Since its inception in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has grown into the largest, Federally-funded means …-tested cash assistance program in the United States. In this chapter, we review the political history of the EITC, its rules and … much of the recent economic research on the EITC, discussing participation in the credit and compliance with its provisions …