TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore
AU  - Strain, Michael R.
        TI  - Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Taking the Long View
        PY  - 2020/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13818
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13818
        AB  - The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million children out of poverty each year. Targeted to low-income households with children, and only available to those who work, the 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 program's inception in 1975. We find robust evidence that EITC expansions increase the extensive margin of labor supply.
        KW  - earned income tax credit
KW  - EITC
KW  - labor supply
        ER  -