Title

Non-Parametric Estimates of the Labor Supply Effects of Negative Income Tax Programs

Author(s)

Orley Ashenfelter Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton University)

Mark W. Plant Mark Plant (Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce)

Abstract

This paper reports nonparametric estimates of the effect of labor supply behavior on the payments to families enrolled in the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. The randomized assignment of families to the treatment groups in this experiment was designed to permit the calculation of these nonparametric estimates. However, the nonparametric estimates have never been reported, even though they are easy to construct using a simple weighting procedure. Unfortunately, responses to the data collection instrument (which depended on costly surveys) were not random, and this opens up some ambiguity in the results.

Creation Date

1990-01

Section URL ID

IRS

Paper Number

259

URL

https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01rv042t06t/1/259.pdf

File Function

Jel

Keyword(s)

labor supply, negative income tax experiment

Suppress

false

Series

1