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A Negative-Income-Tax Experiment

Would payments to those who earned less than a certain amount reduce their incentive to work? The initial results of an unusual test with 1,300 families indicate that the payments would have no such effect

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 227 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “A Negative-Income-Tax Experiment” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 227 No. 4 (), p. 19
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1072-19