Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Scotland: The RSA releases a new report, focused on the experimentation and implementation of a basic income in Scotland
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) just published a new report entitled “A Basic Income for Scotland”. The report is organized in four main sections: How the welfare system in the UK – and in Scotland in particular – is...
Study Finds Issues with Universal Basic Income for Developing Countries
Picture credit to: Biodiversity & Community Health. Measuring income in developing countries A study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Fall examines cash transfer programs across a range of developing countries and uses household data...
Valerija Korošec: “Unconditional Basic Individual Universal Child Grant for Belgium following the Slovenian approach”
Valerija Korošec. Picture credit to: DNEVNIK. Valerija Korošec, a known sociologist and social policy analyst in Slovenia, as well as ex-presidential candidate for that country, has presented a paper entitled “Unconditional Basic Individual Universal Child Grant for...
International Labour Organization: Universal Basic Income proposals in light of ILO standards – Key issues and global costing
Credit Picture: CC(Billy Wilson) The International Labour Organization published a paper investigating Universal Basic Income (UBI) proposals in light of ILO standards. With the ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation (No. 202) providing relevant guidelines for...
When people ask me where online to find empirical research on the effects of Basic Income….
When people ask me where to find empirical research on the effects of Basic Income online, I tend to recommend the following sources, both for the sources themselves and for the many more sources you'll find in their bibliographies: Karl Widerquist A Critical Analysis...
UK: Launch of Research Project on the Economics of Basic Income
Picture Credit to: University of Bath The Institute for Policy Research (IPR), based at the University of Bath, launched a research project on the economics of Basic Income (BI). The project will “examine the economics of Basic Income, including the interaction...
New Research Dispels Common Myths About Unconditional Cash Transfers
Credit Picture to: The Open University A new paper, “Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa”, based upon evidence collected in eight Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) over a decade, presents...
United States: Harvard Economist Argues for Replacement of the EITC with a Basic Income
Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard, Dr. Maximilian Kasy contends that the Earned Income Tax Credit in the United States, carries several economic, moral, and political disadvantages in comparison to a universal basic income.
The 2019 World Development Report from the World Bank calls for a New Social Contract, and Universal Basic Income Could be Part of It
Photo Credit: CC(Cindy Woods) The last world development report from the World Bank is out. It investigates the changing nature of work and suggests what governments could and should do to address the phenomenon. Among the proposals there is the enhancement of social...
Europe: New UBI Research from CESifo
Photo by Stefan Kühn, CC BY-SA 3.0 The CESifo Group of Munich is a European research group that seeks to employ both high-quality economic theory and the methods of an empirical institute. Operating since 1999, CESifo is a collaboration between the Center for Economic...
Sub-Saharan Africa: Cash transfers have a positive impact on social determinants of health
A systematic review has been published that looks at the effects of cash transfers on social determinants of health and health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa. Researchers considered both quantitative (both experimental and quasi-experimental) and...
Social media: How Twitter affects the discussion of UBI
A new research study carried out by Jeff Hemsley, Martha Garcia"Murillo and Ian P. MacInnes investigates how social media affects the discussion and spread of policy and ideas with a case study focus on the topic of Universal Basic Income (UBI). The researchers argue...
