The Age of Negative Income Tax Experimentation (the 70s)

Wayne Simpson ()
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Wayne Simpson: University of Manitoba

Chapter Chapter 3 in Is Basic Income Within Reach?, 2021, pp 43-87 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract By 1967, some form of negative income tax was viewed as a leading policy candidate to provide an effective poverty reduction strategy for the U.S., but concerns about work incentives and the administration of an unconditional cash transfer of this kind led to proposals for a series of scientific experiments rather than a full-blown basic income plan. This chapter reviews the issues and lessons associated with the design, implementation and analysis of the four income maintenance experiments conducted in a tightly woven time frame in the U.S. between 1969 and 1975. While the experiments eventually provided evidence of relatively small work disincentive effects, those results were too late and too poorly understood to help Nixon’s Family Assistance Plan, a negative income tax proposal, which failed in the U.S. Senate.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66085-7_3

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