3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Residential Electricity Time-of-Use Pricing Experiments: What Have We Learned? 11
5. 2. Housing Behavior and the Experimental Housing-Allowance Program: What Have We Learned? 55
6. 3. Income-Maintenance Policy and Work Effort: Learning from Experiments and Labor-Market Studies 95
7. 4. Macroexperiments versus Microexperiments for Health Policy 145
8. 5. Technical Problems in Social Experimentation: Cost versus Ease of Analysis 187
9. 6. Toward Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Medical and Social Experiments 221
10. 7. The Use of Information in the Policy Process: Are Social-Policy Experiments Worthwhile? 251
11. 8. Social Science Analysis and the Formulation of Public Policy: Illustrations of What the President “Knows” and How He Comes to “Know” It 257
12. Contributors 283
13. Author Index 285
14. Subject Index 288