Behavioral responses to taxes
Subtitle: lessons from the eitc and labor supply
By: Nada Eissa, Hilary Hoynes.
Contributors: Hoynes, Hilary Williamson.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11729; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11729.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Earned income tax credit -- United States.; Labor supply -- United States.
Description: "Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).  In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level.  An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use the tax system to encourage and support those who choose to work.  A large body of work has evaluated the labor supply effects the EITC and has generated several important findings regarding the behavioral response to taxes.  Perhaps the main lesson learned from the evidence is the confirmation that real responses to taxes are important; labor supply does respond to the EITC.  The second major lesson is related to the nature of the labor supply response.  A consistent finding is that labor supply responses are concentrated along the extensive (entry) margin, rather than the intensive (hours worked) margin.  This distinction has important implications for the design of tax-transfer programs and for the welfare evaluation of tax reforms"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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