Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea? Arguments For and Against
Van Parijs wrote in 2004 that it goes to every member of a community, with no means test.
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1.What is universal basic income, in one line?
Van Parijs wrote in 2004 that it goes to every member of a community, with no means test.
2.Why does the video say the title asks a value question?
A good idea for whom, and by which measure? The arguments must spell that out.
3.What did Hoynes and Rothstein find about who would gain in the US?
They also wrote that a payment large enough to lift low-income families would be enormously expensive (NBER 2019).
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Sources (7)
- Van Parijs, P.: Basic Income: A Simple and Powerful Idea for the Twenty-First Century, Politics & Society 32(1), 2004, S. 7-39
- Hoynes, H., Rothstein, J.: Universal Basic Income in the US and Advanced Countries, NBER Working Paper 25538 (February 2019); Annual Review of Economics 2019
- Jones, D., Marinescu, I.: The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund, NBER Working Paper 24312 (2018); AEJ: Economic Policy 2022
- Vivalt, E., Rhodes, E., Bartik, A., Broockman, D., Krause, P., Miller, S.: The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income, NBER Working Paper 32719 (July 2024)
- Egger, D., Haushofer, J., Miguel, E., Niehaus, P., Walker, M.: General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya, NBER Working Paper 26600; Econometrica 90(6), 2022
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