Who’s caring for the kids? The Earned Income Tax Credit and child care arrangements

Maternal labor force participation has increased drastically over the last several decades, in part driven by an increasing reliance on work-contingent social policies. Yet we know little about how these policies affect children’s child care arrangements, despite ample evidence that care is linked with children’s wellbeing. In this talk, Professors Michelmore and Pilkauskas will discuss their study the effect of one of the largest work-contingent cash transfer programs in the United States – the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – on the child care arrangements of children.

• Katherine Michelmore
• Natasha Pilkauskas
• Earned Income Tax Credit
• childcare
• child and family policy