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Child Exemptions or Child Allowances

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Eliminating Child exempitons and replacing them with a European style child allowance program would be an effective and costless antipoverty policy The distributional and poverty reducing effects of three potentral child allowance programs are examined These include a fixed dollar tax credit a dollar tax credit a tax credit that declines with income, and a taxable allowance of the some dollar amount for each child

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  • Steven Pressman, 1992. "Child Exemptions or Child Allowances," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(3), pages 257-272, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:51:y:1992:i:3:p:257-272
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1992.tb03478.x
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    1. Steven Pressman, 1994. "A social economist’s search for justice: Comment," Forum for Social Economics, Springer;The Association for Social Economics, vol. 23(2), pages 53-64, March.
    2. Steven Pressman, 2009. "Public Policies and the Middle Class throughout the World in the Mid 2000s," LIS Working papers 517, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.

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