Providing child tax benefits to low-income parents without earnings may not substantially reduce their employment, suggests a new NBER working paper, Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California by Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore.
We should probably do more studies on this to confirm the findings of 10,001 previous studies, the lived experiences and testimonials of previously poor people, and the basic morality that guides our decisions.