Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302776 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA World of Labor [ISSN:] 2054-9571 [Article No.:] 184.v2 [Year:] 2023
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The earned income tax credit provides important benefits to low-income families with children. At substantial costs (over $70 billion to the US federal government), it increases the incomes of such families while encouraging parents to work more by subsidizing their incomes. But low-income adults without children and non-custodial parents receive very low payments under the program in most years (except fo 2021). Many of these adults are less-educated men, whose labor force participation rates and relative wages have been declining for years. They might benefit significantly from a more generous earned income tax credit for childless adults
Subjects: 
employment
less-educated men
childless
low-income adults
non-custodial parents
JEL: 
J38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Article

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