Income Shocks and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Experiment

We thank the non-profit organizations that implemented the program we study. We thank Leo Dai, Kevin Didi, Ethan Sansom, Jake Cosgrove, Taryn Eadie, Samantha Grewal, Malek Hassouneh, Amy Huang, Joshua Lin, Anthony McCanny, Oliver Scott Pankratz, Francis Priestland, Idalina Sachango, Sophia Scaglioni, Stephen Stapleton, Derek Thiele, Angela Wang-Lin, Isaac Ahuvia, Francisco Brady, Jill Adona, Oscar Alonso, Jack Bunge, Rashad Dixon, Marc-Andrea Fiorina and Ricardo Robles for excellent research assistance. Alex Nawar, Sam Manning, Elizabeth Proehl, Tess Cotter, Karina Dotson, and Aristia Kinis provided invaluable support through their work at OpenResearch. We thank Carmelo Barbaro, Janelle Blackwood, Katie Buitrago, Melinda Croes, Crystal Godina, Kelly Hallberg, Kirsten Jacobson, Timi Koyejo, Misuzu Schexnider, and many others at the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago for their pivotal role in supporting the project. This paper gratefully acknowledges funding from the NSF (#2149344) and private donors. This study received ethics approval from Advarra and the University of Toronto’s Institutional Review Boards. The study was pre-registered on the American Economic Association RCT Registry (AEARCTR-0006750). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.