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Redistribution and Tax Expenditures

其他書名	The Earned Income Tax Credit
出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0T5ZAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This paper examines the distributional and behavioral effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). We chart the growth of the program over time, and argue several expansions show that real responses to taxes are important. We use tax data to show the distribution of benefits by income and family size, and examine the impacts of hypothetical reforms (expansions and contractions) to the credit. Finally, we calculate the efficiency effects of marginal changes to EITC parameters. Targeting the EITC to lower-income families by raising the phase-out rate generates a welfare loss for single mothers, primarily because of the disincentive to enter the labor market and not the traditional hours-of-work distortion.