The Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (SIME/DIME) was the last in a series of four, large-scale income maintenance experiments undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s to measure the disincentive effects of cash transfers on the market work of those eligible for them.
Individual/household means-testing and demographic
Targeting Details
Families with income less than $9000 USD if one head of household was employed and less than $11,000 USD if both employed, with even number of white, black and Mexican-American households selected (last group only in Denver, CO)
