Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
by airstrike on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:59PM
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How exactly do you plan on modeling how people are going to behave after receiving the aid? That's what these real-life experiments are trying to do in order to inform their models.
It's not like economists don't know how to build models...
Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income
by dharma1 on Monday May 07, 2018 @01:11PM
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I don't know what I would model or how - that's why I was asking for pointers :)
And I in addition to economists, I would be interested in seeing contributions from physicists, computer scientists and machine learning researchers. This paper was super interesting - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03058, as was this - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06376
But would like to see UBI specific papers.
That's why I was wondering about the game theory part, so it could perhaps be modelled and tested in software. Running large scale UBI experiments is pretty slow and expensive, so tuning the parameters in the real world to make it work is going to take a very long time and cost a lot of money.