12-year study looks at effects of universal basic income

12-year study looks at effects of universal basic income

Give Directly will be transferring money to 21,000 Kenyans. Credit: MIT Sloan School of Management For the next 12 years, MIT Sloan associate professor Tavneet Suri will be part of a team collaborating with the nonprofit Give Directly to study the effects of implementing a universal basic income in Kenya.

Suri is conducting the research along with MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, Princeton professor Alan Krueger, University of California San Diego professor Paul Niehaus, and Give Directly president Michael Faye. Overall, Give Directly expects to transfer $25 million to more than 21,000 people (not including the control group ), 5,000 of […]

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