This paper examines the intergenerational effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on poverty and public … assistance in adulthood (WIC and other public assistance) and reduces the likelihood of being in poverty (<100% of poverty) or … near poor (<200% of poverty) by about 7 percentage points. These findings build on a growing literature that considers the …

Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim ….17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long …-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129, which includes central poverty elasticities …

reducing poverty and food insufficiency, but there is little research on the impact it had on household spending and …

-level variation in EITCs, we find that the EITC helps families rise above poverty-level earnings. This occurs by inducing labor market …

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 …

wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …