Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship among Low-Income Filers

Mathieu R. Despard; Samuel Taylor; Chunhui Ren; Blair Russell; Michal Grinstein-Weiss; Ramesh Raghavan

doi:10.1080/10875549.2017.1348431

Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship among Low-Income Filers

Mathieu R. Despard, Samuel Taylor, Chunhui Ren, Blair Russell, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Ramesh Raghavan

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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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2017.1348431
State	Published - 4 Mar 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Behavioral economics
earned income tax credit
health care hardship
material hardship
savings

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Demography
Sociology and Political Science

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