• DOI:10.1257/APP.5.1.1
Corpus ID: 9402981

Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients

@article{Chetty2009TeachingTT,
  title={Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients},
  author={R. Chetty and E. Saez},
  journal={Randomized Social Experiments eJournal},
  year={2009}
}

R. Chetty, E. Saez

Published 2009

Business, Economics

Randomized Social Experiments eJournal

We conducted a randomized experiment with 43,000 EITC recipients at H&R Block. Tax preparers gave simple, personalized information about the EITC schedule to half of their clients. We find no significant effects of information provision on earnings in the subsequent year in the full sample. Further exploration uncovers evidence of heterogeneous treatment effects on both self-employment income and wage earnings across the 1,461 tax preparers involved in the experiment. Providing information… CONTINUE READING

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