Recipients’ Experiences of the Evolving Tax-Based Safety Net: The Case of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit

Erika Abbott; Laura Tach

doi:10.7758/RSF.2026.12.1.07

Article Information

vol. 12 no. 1 172-191

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.1.07

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 13, 2026.

© 2026 Russell Sage Foundation. Abbott, Erika, and Laura Tach. 2026. “Recipients’ Experiences of the Evolving Tax-Based Safety Net: The Case of the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 12(1): 172–91. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2026.12.1.07. The authors wish to thank Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Jennifer Sykes McLaughlin, the journal editors, and RSF conference participants for their feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript. Erika Abbott acknowledges institutional support through research grants from the Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute (QuIRI), part of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences and from the Cornell Population Center at Cornell University. Direct correspondence to: Erika Abbott, at eaa74{at}cornell.edu, 109 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Erika Abbott^a and
Laura Tach^b

^aDoctoral candidate in sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
^bProfessor of public policy and sociology at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States