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

The Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (SIME/DIME) was the last in a series of four, large-scale income maintenance experiments undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s to measure the disincentive effects of cash transfers on the market work of those eligible for them.

The purpose of the summary is to provide an overview of the rationale behind the income maintenance experiments in general and SIME/DIME in particular; a brief description of SIME/DIME experimental design; and a synopsis of the SIME/DIME research results.