Tax credits

Staff

Francisco Brady

Data and Policy Analyst

Francisco Brady is a data and policy analyst, working primarily on housing stability projects. Francisco has contributed to research on housing instability and homelessness in Chicago, several basic income pilots, and creating estimates of eligible p...

Faculty Directors

Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Faculty Director, Poverty Solutions; Professor of Public Policy

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Natasha Pilkauskas is associate faculty director at Poverty Solutions and a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her research considers how demographic, social safety net, and economic shi...

Faculty Affiliates

Robert Manduca

Assistant Professor of Sociology; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center; Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

Robert Manduca is an assistant professor in U-M's Department of Sociology. His research asks why some people and some places are more economically prosperous than others. His recent work examines the role that national policy decisions play in determ...

Faculty Affiliates

Katherine Michelmore

Associate Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

Katherine Michelmore is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Michelmore is a leading scholar and educator on the social safety net, education policy, labor economics, and econ...

In the Media

Three generations, one roof, and a new American dream

May 17, 2026 Business Insider

In many cultures around the world, multigenerational households — in which grandparents, parents, and grandchildren live under one roof — are a way of life. Though American culture has long prized independence and individualism, many families in the ...

In the Media

Professors discuss efficacy of cash transfer policies

Mar 27, 2026 Michigan Daily

University of Michigan community members, students and faculty gathered in the Ford School of Public Policy Wednesday afternoon to attend “The debate about cash transfers,” a panel on the impacts of cash transfer programs — which provide direct payme...

U-M professors on the student moderator for The Debate on Cash Transfers panel held March 25, 2026, at the Ford School.

News Release

Child Tax Credit expansion boosted housing affordability and stability, U-M study shows

Aug 5, 2024

A temporary, pandemic-era expansion of the Child Tax Credit improved housing affordability for families with low incomes, according to University of Michigan research.

Journal Publications

Tax credits and child outcomes: lessons from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada

March 17, 2024

Katherine Michelmore

Fiscal StudiesOver the last several decades, there have been historic shifts in the structure of cash transfer programmes in Western, developed countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. For all three of these countries, t...

Funded faculty research

Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Reduce Housing Instability?

January 2017 - December 2017

Natasha Pilkauskas, Katherine Michelmore

The study focused on unmarried mothers because they are the primary recipients of EITC, are most likely to experience poor housing outcomes, and their children are vulnerable to the detrimental effects of housing instability.