Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects

By Bruce D. Meyer, Dan T. Rosenbaum. National tax journal, 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Recent Reforms (2010, background): “Meyer and Rosenbaum (2000) calculate that the average net return to working, defined as after‐tax earnings plus the cash value of benefits received if a woman worked minus the cash value of benefits received if she did not work (averaged over the earnings distribution of single women), was $7,270…”
Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations (2006, background): “…in employment for single mothers with little evidence that the credit leads to a reduction in hours worked (Eissa and Liebman 1996, Ellwood 2000 and Meyer and Rosenbaum 2000, 2001,).12 Finally, it is important to note that, because the official poverty definition is based on pre-tax income, the…”
Child Care Assistance Policies Can Affect the Use of Center-Based Care for Children in Low-Income Families (2005, background): “…subsidies allow parents to seek and maintain 88 CROSBY, GENNETIAN, HUSTON work—a link clearly demonstrated in the literature (Blau, 2000; Blau & Tekin, 2001; Chaplin, Robins, Hofferth, Wissoker, & Fronstin, 1999; Fremstad, 2004; McKernan, Lerman, Pindus, & Valente, 2000; Meyer & Rosenbaum, 2000).”
Welfare reforms, family resources, and child maltreatment (2003, background): “... growing literature has established that welfare reforms, in concert with a strong economy and expanded work support such as the EITC, have reduced welfare caseloads (Council of Economic Advisors, 1997, 1999; Figlio and Ziliak, 1999; Huang, Garfinkel, and Waldfogel, 2000; Wallace and Blank, 1999;”
Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply (2012, unknown): “Eissa and Liebman (1996):∆ log(1−τ): Meyer and Rosenbaum (2000) use the same data source and in Table 2 calculate the financial gain from working for single mothers in 1990 as $8,458, compared with $7,469 in 1984.”
Taxes and the labor market participation of married couples (2004, unknown): “Several recent studies have examined the labor supply effects of the EITC on single parents (Dickert et al., 1995; Eissa and Liebman, 1996; Meyer and Rosenbaum, 2000, 2001; Keane and Moffitt, 1998; Ellwood, 2000; Hotz et al., 2002; Grogger, in press).”
Labour supply effects of a cash-for-care subsidy (2004, background): “Liebman 1996; Graversen 1996; Ondrich et al. 1996; Klerman and Leibowitz 1997; Eissa and Hoynes 1998; Blundell et al. 1998; Waldfogel 1999; Meyer and Rosenbaum 2000 ).”
Does It Pay to Move from Welfare to Work (2002, methodology): “Meyer and Rosenbaum (2000) examine the impact of policy changes on the employment of single mothers over the 1984-1996 period using data from the Current Population Surveys. Like Ellwood, they document the increased returns to working due to the expanded availability of federal and state Earned Inco”