How to Best Fight Poverty: the Uneven Ex-Post Effects of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labor Earnings

The Employment Effects of Generous and Unconditional Cash Support

“…Studying the Finish basic income experiment, which replaced minimum unemployment benefits with an unconditional transfer of equal size, Hämäläinen et al (2022) find no employment effects. Evidence on a program similar to ours comes from Del Boca et al (2021) and Aparicio Fenoll and Quaranta (2022). The authors evaluate a cash transfer of e2,500-e3,500 a year targeting low-income individuals in Turin (Italy).…”