Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

By Bruce D. Meyer, Dan Rosenbaum. 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers (2008, unknown): “We take note of recent empirical evidence showing strong labor force participation responses to EITC expansions, unmatched on the hours-worked margin even though the changes in incentives on that margin have been substantial (Eissa and Liebman, 1996; Meyer and Rosenbaum, 2001 ).”
• Direct or indirect tax instruments for redistribution: short-run versus long-run (2004, unknown): “Naito (1996) showed that starting from a situation with no tariffs t 1⁄4 0, imposing a small tariff dt > 0 increases welfare W.”
• The Policy Elasticity (2016, unknown): “In these cases, one requires the causal effect of the policy on the level of pollution; but in addition, one requires an estiDiamond and Mirrlees (1971) also consider a model with heterogeneous agents and derive their tax rules in such settings.”
• The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes (2013, unknown): “Meyer and Rosenbaum (2001) attribute about 80 percent of the increase in labor supply among single mothers during this period to policy changes and about 20 percent to declining unemployment.”
• Social Citizenship and Workfare in the US and Western Europe: From Status to Contract (2003, unknown): “…welfare rolls, but differ as to the relative importance of the economy versus welfare reform; estimates as to the effect of welfare reform range from ‘trivial’ to 30–40% (Ellwood, 1999; Figlio and Ziliak, 1999; Meyer and Rosenbaum, 1999; Council of Economic Advisers, 1999; Grogger et al., 2002).”
• The Earned Income Tax Credit (2001, unknown): “Between 1984 and 1996, for example, the period examined in Meyer and Rosenbaum (2001), the fraction of all”
• Human Capital Development before Age Five. NBER Working Paper No. 15827. (2010, unknown): “…tax credits are a complex intervention in that recipients need to work and file tax returns in order to be eligible, and a great deal of research has shown that such tax credits affect maternal labor supply and marriage patterns (Eissa and Leibman 1996; Meyer and Rosenbaum 2001, Blundell, 2006).”