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January 31, 2025

Sarah Akyena on the Earned Income Tax Credit

Does the Earned Income Tax Credit cause occupational skill mismatch?

Sarah Akyena is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. She sat down for an interview at the 2025 AEA poster session to talk about the unintended conequences of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). She found that the EITC can encourage recipients to take jobs for wich they are overqualified, especially single women with some college education.

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and Occupational Skill Mismatch

By exploring several expansions of the Earned Income tax Credit (EITC), this paper provides an intent-to-treat estimate of job match quality response to wage subsidies. As a conceptual framework, I develop a simple job search model with wage subsidies, which predicts that increases in the subsidy benefit increase the marginal opportunity cost of search, therefore increasing the search cost. . . .

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The AEA interviewed select poster presenters at the 2025 conference in San Francisco to discuss their research and the broader implications of their work. View the full list of videos.