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Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster : Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Brown, Sarah - 2009

to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …

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The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax Credit on Health Outcomes

Braga, Breno - 2019

on the health of young adults. We find that an additional $100 in the average annual EITC exposure between ages 0 and 18 … increases the likelihood of reporting very good or excellent health by 2.7 percentage points and decreases the likelihood of …, and increases in health insurance coverage are channels through which the EITC improves health …

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Tax Incentives for High Skilled Migrants : Evidence from a Preferential Tax Scheme in the Netherlands

Timm, Lisa; Giuliodori, Massimo; Muller, Paul - 2022

This paper examines to what extent an income tax exemption affects international mobility and wages of skilled immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which introduced an income threshold for eligibility in 2012 and covers a large share of the migrant...

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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities

Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2014

The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions...

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The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness

Boyd-Swan, Casey - 2013

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …

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The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills

Averett, Susan - 2015

-rated health for children of unmarried black mothers and married white and Hispanic mothers, lower accident rates for children of …

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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity

Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011

force participation on obesity status. We use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and replicate labor …

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Complex Tax Incentives : An Experimental Investigation

Abeler, Johannes - 2013

How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of taxes. In one treatment the tax system is simple; in the other treatment it is highly complex. The...

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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples : Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...

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Employment Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit : Taking the Long View

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Strain, Michael R. - 2021

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the cornerstone U.S. anti-poverty program, typically lifting over 5 million children out of poverty each year. Targeted to low-income households with children, and only available to those who work, the EITC contains strong incentives for non-workers to...

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