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The Labor Supply Response of Twenty-Year Families in the Denver Income Maintenance Experiment

Philip K. Robbins

University of Miami

The Review of Economics and Statistics 1984

This paper presents results of an analysis of the labor supply response of 20-year families in the Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. The results indicate that 20-year husbands and wives do not reduce their labor supply relative to control families while 20-year single female heads of families reduce their labor supply by about the same amount as similar families on the 3and 5-year programs. The results suggest that the limited duration of the 3and 5-year experiments may not have caused major biases in the estimated treatment effects, although the imprecise estimates resulting from the small sample sizes of the 20-year experiment greatly qualify this conclusion.

DOI
10.2307/1925008
Volume
66 (3)
Pages
491
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