Suppose a researcher identifies the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)on the labor supply of single mothers by comparing the labor supply of those mothers to the labor supply of single women without children before and after the EITC expansion.This is an example of which type of empirical strategy?

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This is a quasi-experiment as it involves comparing the labor supply of single mothers before and after a policy change that affected them, while also comparing their labor supply to that of a control group (single women without children). It is not a randomized experiment as the policy change was not randomly assigned. It is also not a cross-sectional regression or structural estimation, as those methods involve different analytic approaches.

Suppose a Researcher Identifies the Effect of the Earned Income