The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million … EITC contains strong incentives for non-workers to become employed. Most of the existing economics literature focuses on … federal EITC expansions in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper takes a longer view, studying all federal expansions since the …

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million … EITC contains strong incentives for non-workers to become employed. Most of the existing economics literature focuses on … federal EITC expansions in the 1980s and 1990s. This paper takes a longer view, studying all federal expansions since the …

, effort) and extensive (participation) margins. It shows that an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) with negative marginal taxes … expansion of the EITC for childless singles in the US could be welfare-increasing. …

While Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions are typically associated with improvements in maternal mental health …, little is known about the mechanisms through which the program affects this outcome. The EITC could affect mental health … these mechanisms, we assess the effects of state and federal EITC expansion on mental health, employment and health …

In this paper, I first summarize how the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) operates and describe the characteristics … of recipients. I then discuss empirical work on the effects of the EITC on poverty and income distribution, and its … effects on labor supply. Next, I discuss a few policy concerns about the EITC: possible negative effects on hours of work and …