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American Economic Review

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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply

  • Gordon B. Dahl
  • Lance Lochner
American Economic Review
vol. 107, no. 2, February 2017
(pp. 629–31)
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Abstract

Dahl and Lochner (2012) provides some of the first causal evidence of the effects of family income on child achievement using changes in the Earned Income Tax Credit. Unfortunately, a coding error in the creation of total family income affects the first stage estimates and inflates the instrumental variable (IV) estimates. Importantly, it does not affect the reduced-form estimates or alter statistical significance of the IV estimates. This response shows that correcting this error does not alter the core findings or main message of the paper.

Citation

Dahl, Gordon B., and Lance Lochner. 2017. "The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit: Reply." American Economic Review, 107 (2): 629–31. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20161329

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JEL Classification

  • H24 Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
  • H31 Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
  • J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth