The Earned Income Tax Credit and Food Consumption Patterns
Authors:
- Leslie McGranahanLMLeslie McGranahan
- Diane Whitmore SchanzenbachDSDiane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Preprint
- 1 January 2013
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
The Earned Income Tax Credit is unique among social programs in that benefits are not paid out evenly across the calendar year. We exploit this feature of the EKeywords
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