The long-run effects of the earned income tax credit on women's labor market outcomes

D Neumark, P Shirley - Labour Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Using longitudinal data on marriage and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
from 1967 to 2016, we characterize women's exposure to the federal and state Earned
Income Tax Credit (EITC) during their first two decades of adulthood. We use measures of
this exposure to estimate the long-run effects of the EITC on women's labor market outcomes
as mature adults, specifically at age 40. Although the sample size is small, our results
suggest that exposure to a more generous EITC when mothers were unmarried and had …

The long-run effects of the earned income tax credit on women's earnings

D Neumark, P Shirley - 2017 - nber.org
Using longitudinal data on marriage and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
from 1967 to 2016, we characterize women's exposure to the federal and state Earned
Income Tax Credit (EITC) during their first two decades of adulthood. We use measures of
this exposure to estimate the long-run effects of the EITC on women's labor market outcomes
as mature adults, specifically at age 40. Our results suggest that exposure to a more
generous EITC when women were unmarried and had older (school-age) children leads to …