employment for unmarried mothers and 2) improved self-reported mental health for all mothers. State EITC expansion, which … generate smaller changes in the effective wage rate, are associated with improvements in mental health for married mothers only … and have no effect on employment for married or unmarried mothers. We find no impact of EITC expansions on health …

understood. This research estimates long-run effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on outcomes for low-income mothers in …-based effects of EITC benefits for adults, in contrast to previously documented positive long-run effects for children. I find …-run improvements in physical health and economic outcomes for Black mothers. Despite fade-out of short-run effects of the EITC …

-U function of marriage duration, reaches its maximum when children are in their teens, and declines thereafter. We use our …-restoring earnings tax is genderneutral and fairly flat with respect to marriage duration. The optimal divorce tax is an inverted …