diff --git a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib index b17f50b..53e1eed 100644 --- a/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib +++ b/02-data/intermediate/SAMPLE.bib @@ -12314,7 +12314,7 @@ does NOT look at policy impacts (but theories behind it)} doi = {10.1515/bis-2015-0021}, urldate = {2023-11-20}, abstract = {Abstract This article argues that the emancipatory value of a basic income is greater than its monetary value, drawing on the results of a large-scale basic income scheme conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh between 2010 and 2013. The scheme was evaluated by comparing households in villages where everyone received a small cash payment each month with households in similar villages where no one did. The evaluation results showed much stronger than anticipated benefits of a very modest basic income, equivalent to about a third of subsistence. It is argued here that this arises because cash payments alleviate the contrived scarcity of money itself, a cause of chronic indebtedness and impoverishment. Using data and illustrative case studies on debt, savings and financial inclusion, the article demonstrates how a basic income improves economic security beyond its monetary value, which can be termed its emancipatory value. It further concludes that a basic income would have an emancipatory effect for the growing precariat around the world.}, - keywords = {country::India,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,TODO::full-text,type::ubi}, + keywords = {country::India,done::extracted,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,type::ubi}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/8E2XT9UK/Standing_2015_Why Basic Income’s Emancipatory Value Exceeds Its Monetary Value.pdf} } diff --git a/02-data/processed/relevant/Standing2015.yml b/02-data/processed/relevant/Standing2015.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9e93676 --- /dev/null +++ b/02-data/processed/relevant/Standing2015.yml @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +author: Standing, G. +year: 2015 +title: "Why Basic Income’s Emancipatory Value Exceeds Its Monetary Value" +publisher: Basic Income Studies +uri: https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2015-0021 +pubtype: article +discipline: economics + +country: India +period: 2010-2013 +maxlength: 18 +targeting: implicit +group: low-income households +data: baseline & 3 follow-up surveys and censuses; structured interviews + +design: experimental +method: rural pilot project trial, 18/12 months of ubi provision with follow up surveys and interviews +sample: 1665 +unit: household +representativeness: subnational, rural +causal: 1 # 0 correlation / 1 causal + +theory: Lauderdale paradox (money, if scarce becomes even more valuable resource) +limitations: +observation: + - intervention: ubi + institutional: 1 + structural: 0 + agency: 1 + inequality: income + type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal + indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative + measures: debt + findings: ubi significantly decreases debts; results go beyond direct monetary value; households did not have to work for lenders/to pay off debt + channels: directly enables debt reduction; reduces debt-dependency risks; avoids taking on new debt; enables choosing less exploitative forms of borrowing + direction: -1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos + significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg + - intervention: ubi + institutional: 1 + structural: 0 + agency: 1 + inequality: income + type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal + indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative + measures: saving + findings: ubi significantly increases savings; allowed increasing economic security/empowerment of households + channels: shift to institutionalized saving strengthening shock resilience; schooling of the household head, landholding, caste and household size also affect savings + direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos + significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg + +notes: ubi paid in addition to any other state transfers +annotation: | + An experimental study on the effects of providing UBI for villages in India on absolute low-income household debts, utilizing a combination of qualitative and quantitative experimental research. + It finds that the provision of UBI significantly reduced household debts, finding generally agreeing with assumptions in the literature, but goes beyond this by investigating the qualitative causes going beyond purely monetary value into what the authors call 'emancipatory value'. + They find UBI reduces dependency risk - primarily to lenders with high associated fees by allowing the repayment of existing debt, not having to work for the lender directly or by providing them parts of their wages, avoiding taking on new debts and, if new debts have to be taken on, allows choosing less exploitative forms of borrowing (such as from relatives or friends). + The last channel especially is a point of interest of the study: the intervention did not just reduce absolute debts through an individual possessing more money, it generally infused more money into the local contexts, reducing its scarcity and allowing others such as neighbors and friends to provide more collective risk spreading in the villages.. + The intervention also significantly increased possibility of saving in treatment households, allowing for an increased economic security and empowerment, which was also influenced by houshold head education, landholding, the household's caste and size. + The main channel this is accomplished through is a shift to institutionalized saving, with provides increased resilience against shock events. diff --git a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib index 7179b4a..cc8d960 100644 --- a/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib +++ b/02-data/supplementary/lib.bib @@ -12805,7 +12805,7 @@ does NOT look at policy impacts (but theories behind it)} doi = {10.1515/bis-2015-0021}, urldate = {2023-11-20}, abstract = {Abstract This article argues that the emancipatory value of a basic income is greater than its monetary value, drawing on the results of a large-scale basic income scheme conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh between 2010 and 2013. The scheme was evaluated by comparing households in villages where everyone received a small cash payment each month with households in similar villages where no one did. The evaluation results showed much stronger than anticipated benefits of a very modest basic income, equivalent to about a third of subsistence. It is argued here that this arises because cash payments alleviate the contrived scarcity of money itself, a cause of chronic indebtedness and impoverishment. Using data and illustrative case studies on debt, savings and financial inclusion, the article demonstrates how a basic income improves economic security beyond its monetary value, which can be termed its emancipatory value. It further concludes that a basic income would have an emancipatory effect for the growing precariat around the world.}, - keywords = {country::India,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,TODO::full-text,type::ubi}, + keywords = {country::India,done::extracted,inequality::income,region::AP,relevant,type::ubi}, file = {/home/marty/Zotero/storage/8E2XT9UK/Standing_2015_Why Basic Income’s Emancipatory Value Exceeds Its Monetary Value.pdf} } diff --git a/scoping_review.qmd b/scoping_review.qmd index 395971c..600fa8f 100644 --- a/scoping_review.qmd +++ b/scoping_review.qmd @@ -628,9 +628,8 @@ Since policies employed in the pursuit of increased equality can take a wide for the following synthesis will first categorize between the main thematic area and its associated interventions, which are then distinguished between for their primary outcome inequalities. -## Labour protection -### minimum wage +## Minimum wage @Alinaghi2020 conduct a study using a microsimulation to estimate the effects of a minimum wage increase in New Zealand on overall income inequality and further disaggregation along gender and poverty lines. It finds limited redistributional effects for the policy, with negligible impact on overall income inequality and the possibility of actually increasing inequalities among lower percentile income households. @@ -671,7 +670,7 @@ working time reductions significantly decrease aggregate demand through lower in It also finds that through these channels of changing aggregate demand, the environmental outcomes are oppositional, with work time reduction decreasing and UBI increasing the overall ecological footprint. One limitation of the study is the modeling assumption that workers will have to accept both lower income and lower consumption levels under a policy of work time reduction through stable labour market entry for the results to hold. -### Maternity and child-care benefits +## Maternity and child-care benefits @Broadway2020 study the introduction of universal paid maternal leave in Australia, looking at its impacts on mothers returning to work and the conditions they return under. It finds that, while there is a short-term decrease of mothers returning to work since they make use of the introduced leave period, over the long-term (after six to nine months) there is a significant positive impact on return to work. @@ -705,7 +704,7 @@ It also finds significantly positive impacts on the human capital of the childre This suggests childcare costs being removed through a quasi-subsidy reducing the required childcare time burden on mothers, increasing parental agency and employment choices. Some limitations to the study include a relatively small overall sample size, as well as employment effects becoming insignificant when the effect is measured on randomization alone (without an additional instrumental variable). -### Health care +## Health care @Carstens2018 conduct an analysis of the potential factors influencing mentally ill individuals in the United States to participate in the labour force, using correlation between different programmes of Medicaid and labour force status. In trying to find labour force participation predictors it finds employment motivating factors in reduced depression and anxiety, increased responsibility and problem-solving and stress management being positive predictors. @@ -714,7 +713,7 @@ For the government benefits, it finds significant variations for the different v The authors suggest this shows the primary channel of the programme becoming a benefit trap, with disability being determined by not working and benefits disappearing when participants enter the labour force, creating dependency to the programme as a primary barrier. Two limitations of the study are its small sample size due to a low response rate, and an over-representation of racial minorities, women and older persons in the sample mentioned as introducing possible downward bias for measured labour force participation rates. -### Training & Accomodation +## Training & Accomodation Similarly, @Shepherd-Banigan2021 undertake a qualitative study on the significance of vocational and educational training provided for disabled veterans in the United States. It finds that both the vocational and educational services help strengthen individual agency, autonomy and motivation but impacts can be dampened if the potential for disability payment loss due to the potential for job acquisition impedes skill development efforts. @@ -740,7 +739,7 @@ Additionally, it highlighted the necessity of strengthening the individual agenc Additionally, providers must be willing to develop a disclosure plan with the employee and enter the workplace itself to adequately assist in the accommodation process. Limitations to the study include the limited generalizability of its findings with a small non-randomized sample size and restriction to mental health disability. -### Direct Transfer +## Direct Transfer @Emigh2018 study the effects of direct state transfers to people in poverty in the post-socialist market transition countries of Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. It first lookst at the correlations of socio-demographic characteristics with poverty to find that in each country there was an increased probability for poverty of low-education, larger and predominantly Roma households. @@ -750,7 +749,7 @@ in each country's case the transfers to individuals reduced their poverty and we The authors thus suggest that their findings may be compatible both with an institutionalist perspective seeing poverty-eliminating benefits in the short term and with an underclass perspective which contends that nonetheless the transfers do not eliminate the deprivations members of disadvantaged groups face, while providing little evidence for generating welfare dependency proposed in a more neoclassical perspective. However, due to no long-term panel data available to fully analyse the underclass and neoclassical arguments, these findings should not be understood too generalizable. -### Financial agency +## Financial agency @Al-Mamun2014 conduct a study on the impacts of an urban micro-finance programme in Malaysia on the economic empowerment of women. The programme introduced the ability for low-income urban individuals to receive collateral-free credit.