scholarly journals Welfare versus Work Under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver and Manitoba Income Maintenance Experiments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Riddell ◽  
W. Craig Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Income Maintenance ◽  
Negative Income Tax

Negative Income Tax

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEIL J. SALKIND ◽  
RON HASKINS
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Income Maintenance ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Negative Income Tax ◽  
The Impact

The general purpose of the four negative income tax (NIT) experiments was to evaluate the impact of a guaranteed income on labor participation. Beyond this general objective, certain subobjectives can be identified, three of which define the purpose of this analysis. The first is to determine what effect an income maintenance experiment program can have on the health and educational status of children from low-income families, the second is to examine the long-range effects of such a program, and the third is to complete a policy analysis using these results to consider the relative effectiveness of service programs and income maintenance programs in promoting child development and stability. The results show that the NIT experiments were effective in reducing a child's risk of being at poverty. The implications of this are discussed from several policy perspectives.

scholarly journals Are There Treatment Duration Differences in the Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments?

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Job Training ◽  
Estimated Parameters ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Income Maintenance ◽  
Supply Model ◽  
Standard Life ◽  
Negative Income Tax ◽  
And Control

Abstract This paper re-examines the labor supply responses in the Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments (SIME/DIME). Specifically, the original experimental results show a significantly larger labor supply response for men and women from dual-headed households in the five-year Negative Income Tax (NIT) treatment relative to those in the three-year NIT treatment. Although typically thought of only as an NIT experiment, the SIME/DIME also included a job training experiment that enrolled roughly 60 percent of households, including both NIT treatment and control households. The original empirical specification imposed strong assumptions on the treatment response to the job training experiment in order to increase the precision of the estimated parameters. Once these assumptions are relaxed, the labor supply differences between men in the three- and five-year NIT treatments fall by over 50 percent in magnitude and become statistically insignificant. The analogous differences for women are almost entirely explained by these specification changes. Whereas the original findings of the SIME/DIME were inconsistent with the standard life-cycle labor supply model, the results of the re-analysis are mostly consistent with the model.

THE NEGATIVE INCOME TAX AND THE SUPPLY OF WORK EFFORT: REPLY

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-417
Author(s):  
MICHAEL J. BOSKIN
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

THE NEGATIVE INCOME TAX AND THE SUPPLY OF WORK EFFORT: COMMENT

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-416
Author(s):  
JONATHAN KESSELMAN
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

THE NEGATIVE INCOME TAX AND THE SUPPLY OF WORK EFFORT

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-367
Author(s):  
MICHAEL JAY BOSKIN
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

scholarly journals A Negative-Income-Tax Experiment

1972 ◽  
Vol 227 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N. Kershaw
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

scholarly journals Labour Supply Implications of a Negative Income Tax Plan

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-721
Author(s):  
Arun S. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Work Effort ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Younger Workers ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

This study demonstrates that a Negative Income Tax Plan can be expected to result in fairly large reductions in the supply of work effort in the case of younger workers. The potential reductions in labour supply of female workers appear to be particularly large.

Another Low Road to Basic Income? Mapping a Pragmatic Model for Adopting a Basic Income in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy A Smith-Carrier ◽  
Steven Green
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Conditional Cash Transfers ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Income Security ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax

AbstractDrawing from both theoretical and empirical research, the literature on basic income (BI) is now voluminous, pronouncing both its merits and its limitations. Burgeoning research documents the impacts of un/conditional cash transfers and negative income tax programs, with many studies highlighting the effectiveness of these programs in reducing poverty, and improving a host of social, economic and health outcomes. We consider possible avenues for BI architecture to be adopted within Canada’s existing constellation of income security programs, to the benefit of disadvantaged groups in society. Identifying key federal and provincial (i.e., Ontario) transfer and tax benefit programs, we highlight which programs might best be maintained or converted to a BI. While opponents decry the (alleged) exorbitant costs of BI schemes, we suggest that the existing approach not only produces an ineffective system—which actually engenders poverty and the health and social problems that accompany it—but an excessively costly one.

scholarly journals Is a Negative Income Tax Practical?*

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-192
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Pechman
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Negative Income ◽  
Negative Income Tax
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