BIG Experiments of the 1970s and the Public Reaction to Them

Karl Widerquist

Chapter Chapter 6 in A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, 2018, pp 43-55 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses the five Negative Income Tax experiments conducted in the 1970s in the United States and Canada, summarizes their findings, and shows how badly they were misunderstood at the time. It argues that although the experiments succeeded in the scientific goal of obtaining useful data, they badly failed in the goal of improving public understanding of the issue. This experience provides extremely important lessons for the current round of basic income experiments.

Keywords: SIME/DIME; Income maintenance experiments; Mincome; 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_6

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