IZA DP No. 18174: What Did We Learn from the North American Income Maintenance Experiments? New Data and Evidence on Household Behavior and Labor Supply
We re-assess the consequences of a NIT for two-parent families, utilizing hitherto untapped data.
The Gary and Seattle experiments fail balancing tests. In New Jersey, Denver and Manitoba we
estimate far greater labor supply responses than the current consensus, with remarkable
consistency in point estimates and statistical significance across experiments, genders and
countries. On the other hand, using newly collected data from archival records, we estimate
substantial increases in happiness, marital satisfaction, household production, and social
activities in Manitoba. We also reject the contentious finding that the NIT increased marital
separations in Seattle-Denver, which is driven solely by Seattle.
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