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September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…Capital Project SCP Report No. 3-20, 2020, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2020/7/the-demise-of-the-happy-two-parent-home. [29] George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen, and Michael L. Katz, “An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States,” Quarterly Journal…
September 10, 2024
Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being
…time since 2003. AEI’s Michael R. Strain described how 2023 marks a year of recovery and improvement, made possible by the Federal Reserve’s successful efforts to get inflation under control…
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…since 1950.” (p. 4) Bastian cites the research of Schanzenbach and Strain (2020) to argue that a reasonable guess for the true employment effect of eliminating just the EITC would…
January 30, 2024
How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence
…p. 2715-2717; EITC-eligible families w/ children (incl. married) Lippold (2019) 0.4-1.0 — Y p. 43-45 (lower-income parents, not just single mothers); unpublished Schanzenbach and Strain (2020) 0.9-1.5 — Y Corinth…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…family stability. Other research focusing on cultural change dates the shift in norms closer to the 1960s. Economists George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen, and Michael L. Katz argue that the availability…
April 18, 2023
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…Richard John Neuhaus, Robert Nisbet, Michael Novak, William Schambra, and Robert Woodson, the project produced the landmark brief To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, which highlighted the importance of…