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Extending the EITC to noncustodial parents: Potential impacts and design considerations
Laura Wheaton,Elaine Sorensen +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examined the noncustodial parent earned income tax credit (NCP EITC), a new type of credit recently enacted in New York and Washington, D.C. and proposed by Senator Bayh and then-Senator Obama in 2007.Abstract:
This paper examines the noncustodial parent earned income tax credit (NCP EITC), a new type of credit recently enacted in New York and Washington, D.C. and proposed by Senator Bayh and then-Senator Obama in 2007. The NCP EITC offers an earned income tax credit to low-income noncustodial parents who work and pay their full child support. This paper describes the rationale for this policy and provides national estimates of the benefits and costs of an NCP EITC under three alternative policy scenarios. It also discusses several key design and implementation issues.read more
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The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Recent Reforms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the effects of the EITC on poverty and the income distribution and its effects on labor supply, and discuss the likely effects of further expanding the credit to noncustodial parents.
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Discouraging Disadvantaged Fathers’ Employment: An Unintended Consequence of Policies Designed to Support Families
TL;DR: This paper used childbirth costs charged in unmarried mothers' Medicaid-covered childbirths, from Wisconsin administrative records, as an exogenous source of variation to identify the impact of debt on employment and earnings among disadvantaged men.
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Changes in Family Composition Implications for Income, Poverty, and Public Policy
Maria Cancian,Ron Haskins +1 more
TL;DR: The consequences of family composition for poverty and income and its implications for policy are discussed in this article, where the authors discuss policy responses designed to reduce non-marital childbearing and to help single-mother families (reducing the risk of poverty face).
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Income Support Policies for Low-Income Men and Noncustodial Fathers: Tax and Transfer Programs
TL;DR: This paper examined how key income-security policy areas (e.g., unemployment insurance, payroll taxes, and the EITC) affect low-income men and concluded with policy recommendations to improve the impact of work-based subsidies on poverty.
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Behavioral Responses to Taxes: Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply
Nada Eissa,Hilary W. Hoynes +1 more
TL;DR: A large body of work has evaluated the labor supply effects of the EITC and has generated several important findings regarding the behavioral response to taxes as mentioned in this paper, including that real responses to taxes are important.
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Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families
TL;DR: A new policy is proposed that would partially overcome the low wages and income of poorly educated males and second earners in two-parent households by using the earned income tax credit to supplement the earnings of all low-wage workers aged twenty-one to fifty-four who work full time—regardless of whether they have children or whether they are married.
The Earned Income Tax Credit at Age 30: What We Know
TL;DR: This article reviewed the structure and history of the EITC, summarizing key research into the people and places it affects as well as its impact on important socioeconomic measures, and outlined proposals intended to improve the effectiveness of the tax credit as it enters its fourth decade.
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Toward a Mandatory Work Policy for Men
TL;DR: Using the same "help with hassle" approach that welfare reform has used successfully to increase work among poor mothers, policymakers should adapt the child support enforcement and criminal justice systems so that both actively help their clients find employment and then back up that help with a requirement that they work.
Assessing Child Support Arrears in Nine Large States and the Nation
TL;DR: This paper found that most child support arrears are owed by non-custodial parents who have no or low reported incomes, and that 40 percent of arresars in seven large states are likely to be collected over 10 years.