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Underreporting and Experimental Effects on Work Effort: Evidence from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment.

A series of Negative Income Tax experiments in the U.S. suggested that receiving unconditional cash benefits led recipients decreasing their work effort. This paper suggests that those findigns were overreported, due to the experiment's design.

1981

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Findings on employment reductions from the U.S. & Canadian NIT experiments from 1968 - 1980 are often overstated. Results from US NIT experiments in the 1970's overestimated labor supply effects by relying on self-reported estimates.
John Friedman Robert Moffitt David Greenberg
Basic Income
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