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A Failure to Communicate: What (If Anything) Can We Learn from the Negative Income Tax Experiments?

Karl Widerquist · Journal of Socio-Economics 34(1), 49–81 · 2005

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Type: Article
Author: Karl Widerquist
Identifier: DOI 10.1016/j.socec.2004.09.050
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedThe four US negative income tax experiments of 1968–1982 found consistent reductions in labour supply: on average about two weeks of full-time work a year for husbands, three for wives and single female heads, and four for youths.DisputedAn early, widely cited finding that the Seattle-Denver experiment increased marital dissolution was challenged by a reanalysis concluding that its negative income tax plans had no effect on the rate of dissolution relative to controls.