The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Austin Nichols, Jesse Rothstein

NBER Working Paper No. 21211
Issued in May 2015

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We thank Apurna Chakraborty and Darian Woods for excellent research assistance. The paper has benefitted from comments and suggestions from Richard Blundell, Chye-Ching Huang, Robert Greenstein, Hilary Hoynes, Chuck Marr, Robert Moffitt, Emmanuel Saez, Arloc Sherman, and John Wancheck, though none are responsible for the content. We are especially grateful to Margaret Jones of the U.S. Census Bureau for providing the tabulations of non-public matched CPS-IRS data discussed in Section 3. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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