RESEARCH
Who Does The Earned Income Tax Credit Benefit?
Working Paper—The popular EITC program is credited with encouraging employment and reducing poverty. But a SCEPA working paper suggests it may also reduce wages for low-education workers, including older workers who do not receive EITC benefits at the same rate as younger workers.
This paper motivates the content and analytical significance of processes of “social scaling” in competitive economic settings.
This paper argues that given certain self-definitions and key defining features of economic sociology, Keynes's work can be read and interpreted as a text in economic sociology.
The article introduces a decomposition of trade flows that allows to measure expenditure-growth effects and expenditure-switching effects, which is applied to 11 euro members 1990-2014.
This paper supports the need to focus not only on ensuring Social Security’s solvency for future generations, but building the program’s ability to support all working Americans.
Workers across the country face a retirement crisis. However, workers in Philadelphia are faring worse than average.
This paper entertains two distinct hypotheses about the meaning and effect of the Lucas critique.
Economic shocks, such as job-loss, have particularly adverse effects on retirement savings of workers in low-income households, exacerbating retirement savings inequality.
Inadequate wealth accumulations reflect well-known design flaws in the 401(k) system.
