Intuitively, I really want to believe in UBI but study after study shows it just doesn't work. New one on families that got $1k / mo showed zero improvement in educational outcomes, school attendance, food security, or parental satisfaction.

Strange most UBI studies I’ve seen showed positive effects?

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.

The data speaks for itself.

Data: https://t.co/gTtB9g78KU #basicincome https://t.co/LVAqwP6WY6

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Strange most UBI studies I’ve seen showed positive effects? https://x.com/scottsantens/status/1040683616488103936?s=46&t=m1Jlf0dojyC4eiPyQZXD5g

Have a scroll through Scott’s timeline, he’s posted more recent studies.

Will take a read, though this post is from 8 years ago. The UBI experiments done since then are what's changed my mind, inc the ORUS studies:

"the transfer caused total individual income excluding the transfers to fall by about $2,000/year relative to the control group and a 3.9 percentage point decrease in labor market participation"

https://www.nber.org/papers/w32719