Overview of the Final Report of the
Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment

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Overview Prepared by:
Office of Income Security Policy
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

May 1983

This overview available on the web at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/SIME-DIME83/index.htm

Contents of Overview

• Preface
• Beginning of Overview
• Policy Context
• Social Experimentation
• Design and Implementation of SIME/DIME
• SIME/DIME Results
  • Introduction
  • Cash Transfer Effects on Labor Supply
  • Counseling/Training Subsidy Effects
  • Effects on Marital Stability
• Conclusions Suggested by the SIME/DIME Results
• Appendix:  Table of Contents of Final Report

List of Tables

1. Negative Income Tax Plans Tested in SIME/DIME
2. Average Transfers Received by SIME/DIME Families
3. The Distribution of the SIME/DIME Sample at Enrollment
4. Labor Supply Response of Husbands
5. Labor Supply Response of Wives
6. Labor Supply Response of Female Heads
7. Rates of Participation in the Counseling/Training Subsidy Treatment
8. Effect of Counseling and Training Subsidies on Annual Earning and Hours of Work
9. Proportions of Original Marriages Observed to End During the First Three Years of SIME/DIME
10. Estimated Percentage Change In Martial Dissolution Rates Caused by the NIT Treatment:  All Marriages

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Overview
Appendix

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