Lessons from the Income Maintenance Experiments

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Conference Series 30
September 1986
Co-sponsored by The Brookings Institution

Contents

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Lessons from the Income Maintenance Experiments: An Overview
Alicia H. Munnell

The Work Response to a Guaranteed Income: A Survey of Experimental Evidence
Gary Burtless; with discussion by Orley C. Ashenfelter and Robert E. Hall

The Income Maintenance Experiments and the Issues of Marital Stability and Family Composition
Glen G. Cain; with discussion by David T. Ellwood and Nancy Brandon Tuma

Non-Labor-Supply Responses to the Income Maintenance Experiments
Eric A. Hanushek; with discussion by Katharine L. Bradbury and Robert T. Michael

Evaluating the Methodology of Social Experiments
Arnold Zellner and Peter E. Rossi; with discussion by Jerry A. Hausman and Charles E. Metcalf

Social Experimentation in the Face of Formidable Fables
Dennis J. Coyle and Aaron Wildavsky; with discussion by Hugh Heclo and Lawrence M. Mead

A Sociologist’s View of the Income Maintenance Experiments
Lee Rainwater; with discussion by Charles Murray

A Political Scientist’s View of the Income Maintenance Experiments
Richard F. Elmore; with discussion by Robert D. Reischauer

An Economist's View of the Income Maintenance Experiments
Robert M. Solow; with discussion by Edward M. Gramlich

Views of a Policymaker and Public Administrator
Barbara B. Blum; with discussion by Wilbur J. Cohen

Lessons for Future Public Policy and Research
Richard P. Nathan