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Studying the Earned Income Tax Credit's use by Hispanic families to account for those missed by tax-system-based policies and for COVID-19's impact

  • Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Grant number: 78061

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2021

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $75,000

  • Funder

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • Principal Investigator

    Unspecified Dana Thomson

  • Research Location

    United States of America

  • Lead Research Institution

    Child Trends Inc

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

Health Disparities. To investigate the use of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) by Hispanic families with young children (1) by examining (a) characteristics of families who are disconnected from the tax- and unemployment-insurance-based (UI-based) systems; (b) how patterns associated with disconnection from the tax- and UI-based systems vary by race/ethnicity; (c) the extent to which different state policies may be associated with increased tax-system participation and UI receipt, to identify policies that will effectively reach that population; and (d) the impact of COVID-19 and (2) by conducting a policy scan of state variation in UI benefits and structure to complement Child Trends' ongoing scan of state variation in EITC and tax-based policies.