Jake Schild

Apr 2, 2024 | equitablegrowth.org | Liz Hipple |Jonathan Fisher |Jake Schild |David Johnson

Amid ongoing congressional debate over expanding the Child Tax Credit for U.S. families, it’s important to understand why the fears about the expansion of that tax credit in 2021 were wrong. One of the more prominent concerns voiced at the time was that families who qualified for the expanded tax credit would spend the additional money unwisely, even perhaps using it to buy illicit drugs. These concerns were offensive on many levels.

Jun 29, 2023 | nber.org | Jake Schild |Sophie Collyer |Thesia I. Garner |Neeraj Kaushal

We thank Steve Nunez, Claudia Sahm, colleagues at the Price Index and Number Research Monthly Division meetings, and at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University for their highly valuable comments. We also thank the JPB Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies for funding our research. We are also grateful for support from the Columbia Population Research Center which is funded by NICHD: 2P2CHD058486-11 .

Apr 19, 2023 | bls.gov | Thesia I. Garner |Brett Matsumoto |Jake Schild |Scott Curtin

Article This study provides an update on the work being done by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to produce a research-based consumption measure and explores its potential use in poverty and inequality analysis. For this study, and for most U.S.-based studies in the literature, the Consumer Expenditure Surveys serve as the base to develop the measure.