A Comparison of the Labor Supply Findings from the Four Negative Income Tax Experiments

By Philip K. Robins. 1985

Citations in the corpus

• The Econometrics of Randomized Experiments (2016, background): “…Duan, Keeler and Leibowitz, 1987, see the general discussion in Rothstein and von Wachter, 2016) and the Negative Income Tax experiments (e.g., Robins, 1985), it is only recently that there has been a large number of randomized experiments in economics, and development economics in particular.”
• The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in OECD Countries; Hours of Work Versus Labor Force Participation (2003, result): “This is confirmed by a number of studies of the Negative Income Tax experiments in the United States, surveyed by e.g. Robins (1985).”
• Social Experiments in the Labor Market (2016, unknown): “This reflects a combination of income and substitution effects; Robins (1985) combines the various studies and uses contrasts among the different treatment arms to separately identify the income and substitution elasticities of labor supply.”
• Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers (2008, unknown): “…Negative Income Tax experiments showing that participation was more sensitive than hours worked for both single female heads and married women (Robins, 1985), as well as with indirect evidence showing larger estimated elasticities for all than for working married women (Mroz, 1987; Triest,…”
• Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis (2005, unknown): “The empirical results from these experiments have been surveyed by Robins (1985).”