Effective Policy for Reducing Poverty and Inequality?
Effective Policy for Reducing Poverty and Inequality?
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减少贫困和不平等的有效政策？
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2018
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Ankur J. Patel
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H. Hoynes;Ankur J. Patel
我们使用一种准实验的方法来检验EITC对有孩子的单身母亲的贫困和收入的影响，这种方法利用了由于不同纳税年度和家庭规模的政策扩张而导致的慷慨程度的变化。我们发现，EITC的收入增加效应集中在收入与贫困之比的75%到150%之间，对最低收入水平和250%以上的贫困水平几乎没有影响。我们利用这些结果表明，由于未能捕捉信贷对收入的间接影响，EITC的反贫困效应的静态计算可能被低估了近50%。
We examine the effect of the EITC on the poverty and income of single mothers with children using a quasi-experimental approach that leverages variation in generosity due to policy expansions across tax years and family sizes. We find that the income increasing effects of the EITC are concentrated between 75 and 150 percent of income-to-poverty with little effect at the lowest income levels and at levels of 250 percent of poverty and higher. We use these results to show that by failing to capture the indirect effects of the credit on earnings, static calculations of the antipoverty effects of the EITC may be underestimated by almost 50 percent.