Please join us for a talk with Dr. Jacob Bastian, an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Dr. Bastian's research focuses on how public policy can reduce poverty, increase economic opportunity, and affect social attitudes, while also identifying unintended consequences. His research has looked at the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and found that this program helped lead to the rise of working mothers in the 1970s, improved the education and employment outcomes of children of EITC recipients, changed social attitudes about the role of women in society, and had positive effects on marriage and fertility. In new work, he shows that the EITC helps "pay for itself" by increasing various forms of tax revenue and by decreasing reliance on other forms of public assistance.