The town with no poverty: The health effects of a Canadian guaranteed annual income field experiment

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 283-305

  Forget, Evelyn L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Basic income; Field experiment; Guaranteed annual income; Health outcomes; MINCOME; Negative income tax

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILITY; HEALTH IMPACT; INCOME; POVERTY; URBAN AREA;

CANADA;

EID: 80053326436     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cpp.37.3.283     Document Type: Article

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