scholarly journals The effects of state‐level earned income tax credits on suicides

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1476-1482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Lenhart
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
State Level ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Earned Income

scholarly journals An Estimate of the Local Economic Impact of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credits

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-186
Author(s):  
Eric James Stokan
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
State Level ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Synthetic Control ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
Triple Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Robustness Check

This study investigates the impact of state-level earned income tax credits on local economic outcomes (employment, wages, and establishments). The study employs difference-in-differences and triple-difference models to estimate the impact of these credits at the border of metropolitan areas where one side of the border adopts the credit between 1986 and 2012, and the other side of the border does not. Separate analyses are conducted for specific industries and subindustries. Synthetic control methods are used as a robustness check. The analyses suggest that state-level earned income tax credits do not have a significant impact on the local economic outcomes of metropolitan areas. At least one potential reason offered is that while these impacts are not a direct goal of the program, the credits may not be large enough to realize positive economic gains.

scholarly journals Do Government Benefits Affect Officeholders’ Electoral Fortunes? Evidence from State Earned Income Tax Credits

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunter Rendleman ◽  
Jesse Yoder
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Policy Feedback ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
Approval Ratings ◽  
The Government

Whether and how individuals link benefits they receive from the government to their voting behavior is a central question in political economy. We study this question using one of the largest social provision programs in the United States: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). We exploit the staggered roll-out of state-level EITC programs to estimate the causal effect of the program on elections, voter behavior, and attitudes about the government. Contrary to predictions from the policy feedback literature, we show that the credit leads to higher vote shares and approval ratings for the implementing governor. These effects are temporally limited to the first years of the credit’s availability, and dissipate over time. Taken together, our results suggest that voters are responsive to the benefit.

State earned income tax credits and suicidal behavior: A repeated cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
pp. 106403
Author(s):  
Erin R. Morgan ◽  
Christopher R. DeCou ◽  
Heather D. Hill ◽  
Stephen J. Mooney ◽  
Frederick P. Rivara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Earned Income

The effects of state earned income tax credits on mental health and health behaviors: A quasi-experimental study

2021 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 113274
Author(s):  
Daniel F. Collin ◽  
Laura S. Shields-Zeeman ◽  
Akansha Batra ◽  
Justin S. White ◽  
Michelle Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
Quasi Experimental

scholarly journals Can antipoverty programmes save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. e037051
Author(s):  
Peter Muennig ◽  
Daniel Vail ◽  
Jahn K Hakes
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
State Level ◽  
Earned Income Tax Credit ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Tax Credit ◽  
Earned Income ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

ObjectiveTo estimate the impact of state-level supplements of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on mortality in the USA. The EITC supplements the wages of lower-income workers by providing larger returns when taxes are filed.SettingNationwide sample spanning 25 cohorts of people across every state in the USA.Participants793 000 respondents within the National Longitudinal Mortality Survey (NLMS) between 1986 and 2011, a representative sample of the USA.InterventionState-level supplementation to the EITC programme. Some, but not all, states added EITC supplementation to varying degrees beginning in 1986 (Wisconsin) and most recently in 2015 (California). Participants who were eligible in states with supplementary programmes were compared with those who were not eligible for supplementation. Comparisons were made both before and after implementation of the supplementary programme (a difference-in-difference, intent-to-treat analysis). This quasi-experimental approach further controls for age, gender, marital status, race or ethnicity, educational attainment, income and employment status.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary outcome measure was survival at 10 years. Secondary outcome measures included survival at 5 years and survival to the end of the intervention period.ResultsWe find an association between state supplemental EITC and survival, with a HR of 0.973 (95% CI=0.951–0.996) for each US$100 of EITC increase (p<0.05).ConclusionState-level supplemental EITC may be an effective means of increasing survival in the USA.

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