Abstract
Material and health care hardship is common among households with low incomes and is associated with a host of adverse outcomes but can be mitigated with having savings. The authors assessed the effects of online tax-time savings interventions informed by behavioral economics on hardship among a sample of low- and moderate-income tax filers (N = 4,738). The authors find that filers who received an intervention had a statistically significant, lower probability of both types of hardship 6 months after tax filing, compared to the control group. However, this result does not hold when incorporating household financial characteristics and prior hardship to models.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 156-178 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Poverty |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 6 Sept 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords
- Behavioral economics
- earned income tax credit
- health care hardship
- material hardship
- savings
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