Eissa, Nada; Liebman, Jeffrey B - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 111 (1996) 2, pp. 605-37
This paper examines the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86), which included an expansion of the earned income tax credit, on the labor force participation and hours of work of single women with children. We identify the impact of TRA86 by comparing the change in labor supply of single...