Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya
Abhijit Banerjee,Michael Faye,Alan Krueger,Paul Niehaus,Tavneet Suri — Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya (2023)Abhijit Banerjee; Michael Faye; Alan Krueger; Paul Niehaus; Tavneet Suri · 2023 · Report · Abstract and introductionEstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0497 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: GiveDirectly's universal basic income study in Kenya (since 2017) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“After about two years, long-term UBI villages had more enterprises and net revenues up by slightly more than 50%; labour supply did not change overall but shifted from wage work to self-employment, and lump sums had similar or larger economic effects.”
Context. A working paper, not yet peer-reviewed; two of the authors are GiveDirectly directors.
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22023 results from the Kenya UBI study
2023 results from the Kenya UBI study (2023)2023 · Web page · Summary of findingsEvidence that contradicts
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