Ast Prof @RutgersU | Postdoc @HarrisPolicy | Econ PhD @umichECON | 1st gen college grad | I research how public policy can help low income families and ⬇poverty
Jan 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
After months, I’m finally ready to release my 2021 Child Tax Credit analysis
I find the CTC reduces parent and child poverty by 33% and 35%, and reduces deep poverty by 44% and 51%, larger than the impact of the 2018 CTC and EITC *combined*
I find the 2021 CTC (if extended) would lead 413,000 adults—including 325,000 mothers & only 96,000 poor adults—to stop working. Over a full year, the CTC would reduce parental poverty rate from 11% to 7%, and child poverty rate from 17% to 11%.
An unprecedented poverty decrease
Jul 29, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Exciting news! My paper with @michelmorek on The Long-Term Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children’s Education and Employment Outcomes is now on the Journal of Labor Economics site: doi.org/10.1086/697477
Brief summary:
We find that an additional $1,000 in EITC exposure when a child is 13–18 years old increases the likelihood of completing high school (1.3%), completing college (4.2%), and being employed as a young adult (1.0%) and earnings by 2.2%.
