The Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit

A previous version of this paper was submitted to the Expert Panel for the Study of a Basic Income for British Columbia. We thank Kory Kroft for helpful discussions and Cameron Harries, Steven Ryan, James Uguccioni and Xiner Xu for excellent research assistance. Baker gratefully acknowledges the research support of a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. Some of the analysis for this paper was conducted at the Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre, which is part of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). The services and activities provided by the CRDCN are made possible by the financial or in-kind support of the SSHRC, the CIHR, the CFI, Statistics Canada and participating universities whose support is gratefully acknowledged. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Statistics Canada, CRDCN, the Government of Canada, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.