Hilary Hoynes is a full professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis and the co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic policy. Hoynes specializes in the study of tax and transfer programs for poor families. Her work looks at the effects of various tax and transfer programs on labor supply, family formation, poverty and inequality. She has written numerous papers about impacts of the U.S. cash welfare program (formerly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), now Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). She is also an expert on the effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit and made a presentation on the EITC to President Bush's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform. This work has been published in many prestigious journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Public Economics.
She has research affiliations at the National Bureau of Economic, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the National Poverty Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty. She has received research grants from the National Institute on Aging; the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; the US Department of Agriculture; the Institute for Research on Poverty; and the Joint Center for Poverty Research. Professor Hoynes received her PhD from Stanford University in 1992.
