Should the earned income tax credit rise for childless adults?

Harry Holzer

World of Labour, 2023, No 184v2, 184v2

Abstract: The earned income tax credit provides important benefits to low-income families with children. At substantial costs (over $70 billion to the US federal government), it increases the incomes of such families while encouraging parents to work more by subsidizing their incomes. But low-income adults without children and non-custodial parents receive very low payments under the program in most years. Many of these adults are less-educated men, whose labor force participation rates and relative wages have been declining for years. They might benefit significantly from a more generous earned income tax credit for childless adults.

Keywords: employment; less-educated men; childless; low-income adults; non-custodial parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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