Identifying Important Empirical Claims in the UBI Debate

Karl Widerquist

Chapter Chapter 13 in A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, 2018, pp 99-104 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter proposes a list of important empirical claims made by supporters and opponents of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in an effort to identify what empirical questions UBI experiments should focus on and how researchers can relate experimental findings to the things people really want to know about UBI.

Keywords: Basic income experiments; Negative Income Tax experiments; Social science experiments; Basic income; Universal Basic Income; Inequality; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6_13

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