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In this post we’ll look at the Eastern Band of Cherokees natural experiment, which is widely viewed as a UBI success story. Specifically, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Casino Dividend “natural experiment” and (to a lesser extent) Finland’s 2017-18 UBI study. So where has such a UBI, stringently defined, been implemented and evaluated? Two places: North Carolina and Finland**. Since a major concern about the UBI is that many recipients would work less or not at all if they received a monthly cash benefit large enough to live on, UBI studies that matter are those where the benefit is large enough to provide a decent alternative to working - and where participants receive the benefit long enough to influence their work-related plans. While these payments may benefit recipients in various ways, they are not enough to live on or rely on, and so there is no reason to expect such payments to have much of an effect on labor market participation. For example, the Alaska Permanent Fund disbursements of $300 - $2000 a year ( average of $1224 a year since 2010) don’t count, ditto the 75 cents a day given to some Kenyans* ditto most lottery winnings. But what, exactly, is a Universal Basic Income? There is no consensus definition, but here’s a good one provided by a couple economists: UBI is a cash transfer program that 1) provides a sufficiently generous cash benefit to live on, without other earnings 2) does not phase out or phases out only slowly as earnings rise and, 3) is available to a large proportion of the population, rather than being targeted to a particular subset, e.g., to single mothers (Hoynes and Rothstein, 2019).īased on this definition, infrequent, unpredictable, and very small cash payments do not count as UBI. Judging from the media coverage, there’s a lot of support - popular, academic, and empirical - for the Universal Basic Income (UBI).

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