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This chapter discusses some necessary definitions and the pros and cons of the techniques available for field experiments of the Universal Basic Income. These techniques include randomized controlled trials, saturation studies, and combinations of the two.
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Andrew Gelman, “Experimental Reasoning in Social Science,” in Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences, ed. Dawn Langan Teele (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014).
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Widerquist, K. (2018). Available Testing Techniques. In: A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6_3
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