Redistribution and Tax Expenditures: The Earned Income Tax Credit

Nada Eissa, Hilary Hoynes

NBER Working Paper No. 14307
Issued in September 2008

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This paper was prepared for the conference on "Incentive and Distributional Consequences of Tax Expenditures" held on March 27-29, 2008 in Bonita Springs, Florida. We wish to thank Emmanuel Saez for helpful comments, Dan Feenberg for special tabulations from TAXSIM, Ankur Patel for excellent research assistance, conference participants, and Henrik Kleven for useful discussions. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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