The most interesting new paper in months dropped in last week: “ Does Income Affect Health? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial of a Guaranteed Income “ All the broad strokes are there in the abstract: $1000 per month, 2,000 participants (half treated), for three years . It’s the biggest, highest salience experimental test of a universal basic income program to date. There’s a lot of detail, but the broad strokes findings are that nothing happened. That is to say, there was a lot of precise null effects. And that is absolutely fascinating! I’ve gone back in forth on […]
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