Non-Parametric Estimates of the Labor Supply Effects of Negative Income Tax Programs

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This paper reports nonparametric estimates of the effect of labor supply
behavior on the payments to families enrolled in the Seattle/Denver Income
Maintenance Experiment. The randomized assignment of families to the
treatment groups in this experiment was designed to permit the calculation
of these nonparametric estimates. However, the nonparametric estimates
have never been reported, even though they are easy to construct using a
simple weighting procedure. Unfortunately, responses to the data
collection instrument (which depended on costly surveys) were not random,
and this opens up some ambiguity in the results.

Year of Publication
1990
Number
259
Date Published
01/1990
Publication Language
eng
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Journal of Labor Economics, 1990 Vol. 8, No 1, January, 1990
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