The New Jersey Income Maintenance Experiment was designed to estimate the extent to which workers in poor families would be induced to work less by new income maintenance programs. The importance of and rationale for the experiment are presented here, and some preliminary results are presented and evaluated.
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin -Madison
IMPLEMENTATION DATA
Implementation Dates
1968-1976
Implementation Status
Concluded
Total Number of Participants
1357
Type of Funding
Public
Participants Receiving the Transfer
Households
Transfer Amount
Varied
Frequency of Payment
Monthly
Duration of Payment
12 months
Is Use of Funds Available?
No
Is the Pilot a Randomized Control Trial (RCT)?
Yes
TARGETING INFORMATION
Type of Tagergeting
Individual/household means-testing and demographic
Targeting Details
Families with at least one working-age male who was neither a full-time student nor disabled with income up to 150% of the federal poverty level ($3,330 for a family of four in 1968)
