%0 Report
        %A Verlaat, Timo
%A Todeschini, Federico
%A Ramos, Xavier
        %T The Employment Effects of Generous  and Unconditional Cash Support
        %D 2023
        %8 2023 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15976
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15976
        %X While unconditional cash transfers have been studied extensively in developing countries, little is known about their effects in a wealthier context. Through a randomized controlled trial, we study the employment effects of a generous and unconditional transfer targeting low-income families in Spain. Two years into the program, subjects assigned to treatment are 20 percent less likely to work than subjects assigned to a control group. 
Assignment to an activation plan does not attenuate adverse effects; a more lenient transfer withdrawal rate does. It appears that effects are driven by subjects with children, suggesting substitution of labour for care tasks.

        %K policy evaluation
%K basic income
%K cash transfer
%K welfare reform
%K RCT