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Damon Jones on Whether a Modest Basic Income Might Lead People to Work Less
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:23:00
Publish Date: 2019-07-18 13:22:33
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The idea of a universal basic income has been gaining traction in recent years, but we don’t have much evidence about what a large-scale universal basic income policy would do. In this episode, University of Chicago economist Damon Jones talks about the idea of a universal basic income and discusses a study he did with Ioana Marinescu that looked at the Alaska Permanent Fund to better understand the labor market effects of universal and permanent cash payments. 
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