| Contents |
The collision of tax and welfare politics: the political history of the earned income tax credit / Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. -- Making single mothers work: recent tax and welfare policy and its effects / Bruce D. Meyer and Dan T. Rosenbaum -- The impact of the earned income tax credit and social policy reforms on work, marriage, and living arrangements / David T. Ellwood -- Measuring the effect of the earned income tax credit on marriage penalties and bonuses / Janet Holtzblatt and Robert Rebelein -- The optimal design of the earned income tax credit / Jeffrey B. Liebman -- Noncompliance with the earned income tax credit: the determinants of the misreporting of children / Janet McCubbin -- Who are the ineligible earned income tax credit recipients? / Jeffrey B. Liebman -- The earned income tax credit: expectation, knowledge, use, and economic and social mobility / Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherin Ross Phillips, and Michael A. O'Connor -- The effects of the earned income tax credit on the seasonality of household expenditures / Lisa Barrow and Leslie McGranahan -- How families view and use the earned income tax credit: advance payment versus lump-sum delivery / Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas S. Weisner. |
