Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction // Bruce D. Meyer and Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Part I. The History of the Earned Income Tax Credit
Chapter 1. The Collision of Tax and Welfare Politics: The Political History of the Earned Income Tax Credit // Dennis J. Ventry, Jr.
Part II. Work and Marriage Incentives
Chapter 2. Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and Its Effects // Bruce D. Meyer and Dan T. Rosenbaum
Chapter 3. The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit and Social Policy Reforms on Work, Marriage, and Living Arrangements // David T. Ellwood
Chapter 4. Measuring the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Marriage Penalties and Bonuses // Janet Holtzblatt and Robert Rebelein
Chapter 5. The Optimal Design of the Earned Income Tax Credit // Jeffrey B. Liebman
Part III. Compliance Problems
Chapter 6. Noncompliance with the Earned Income Tax Credit: The Determinants of the Misreporting of Children // Janet McCubbin
Chapter 7. Who Are the Ineligible Earned Income Tax Credit Recipients? // Jeffrey B. Liebman
Part IV. How Recipients Use Their Credit
Chapter 8. The Earned Income Tax Credit: Expectation, Knowledge, Use, and Economic and Social Mobility // Timothy M. Smeeding, Katherin Ross Phillips, and Michael A. O'Connor
Chapter 9. The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Seasonality of Household Expenditures // Lisa Barrow and Leslie McGranahan
Chapter 10. How Families View and Use the Earned Income Tax Credit: Advance Payment Versus Lump-Sum Delivery // Jennifer L. Romich and Thomas S. Weisner
Index