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Evaluating work‐related cash benefit programs: The Earned Income Tax Credit
Author(s) -
Hill Carolyn J.,
Hotz V. Joseph,
Scholz John Karl
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
new directions for evaluation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.374
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1534-875X
pISSN - 1097-6736
DOI - 10.1002/ev.1106
Subject(s) - cash , tax credit , work (physics) , business , public economics , income tax , economics , actuarial science , finance , engineering , mechanical engineering
The Earned Income Tax Credit is expected to cost the federal government $27.1 billion in 1998, making it the largest cash or near‐cash program available to low‐income families in the United States. Strategies most commonly employed to gain insight into the central issues of this tax credit include data sleuthing, simulations, natural experiments comparing participant and control groups, and cross‐sectional econometric techniques.