This paper examines the employment effects of the earned income tax credit (EITC). We use a unique dataset, created by matching administrative data from public assistance records, unemployment insurance records, and federal tax returns for a sample of California residents. We conduct a set of...

What are the consequences of a nationwide reform of a transfer system based on means-testing toward one of unconditional transfers? I answer this question with a quantitative model to assess the general equilibrium, inequality, and welfare effects of substituting the current US income security...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. What we have learned from the interviews -- Chapter 2. The goal, context, and methods behind our case studies -- Chapter 3. What do our case studies tell us? -- Part 2. New questions the interviews have raised -- Chapter 4. The decision to implement UBI...

This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments. It provides an analysis of some of the major elements and factors influencing experiments, as well of some of...