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The Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income

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  • Karl Widerquist

    (Georgetown University)

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Between 1968 and 1980, the US and Canadian governments conducted five Negative Income Tax (NIT) experiments, which continue to have an important impact on the discussion of Basic Income. The first section of the chapter discusses the labour market effects of the NIT experiments of the 1970s; the second section non-labour market effects; and the third section the difficulty of making an overall assessment of NIT or Basic Income on the basis of experimental findings. The fourth section discusses how the public reaction to the release of NIT experimental findings in the 1970s fell victim to spin and oversimplification, and the final section discusses how later reassessments of these experimental findings avoided many of these problems.

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  • Karl Widerquist, 2023. "The Negative Income Tax Experiments of the 1970s," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Malcolm Torry (ed.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 329-345, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-031-41001-7_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41001-7_16
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