In this article, they analyze the interaction of the earned income tax credit, the child tax credit, and the income tax under the recently enacted tax act for 2001, and the reduction in the EITC marriage penalty that will begin in 2002. The act made the child tax credit partially refundable and...

Families originally living in public housing were assigned housing vouchers by lottery, encouraging moves to neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects...