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Article: Methodological frontiers of public finance field experiments.(Forum: Experiments in Public Economics)
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- National Tax Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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INTRODUCTION
An economics graduate student starting her dissertation today would do well to follow the example of Heather Ross and think big. After working in 1965 and 1966 as an intern with the President's Council of Economic Advisers and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Ross became interested in income maintenance policy, particularly in how the behavior of low-income people might respond to transfer payments. In 1966, Ross, then a visiting research fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote a paper entitled A Proposal for Demonstration of New Techniques in Income Maintenance, which was subsequently submitted to the Johnson Administration's ...