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A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay.
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AI Verified The sentence appears verbatim in the abstract of NBER Working Paper No. 21041 (March 2015), hosted at the cited NBER URL/PDF. The source lists the paper’s authors as Arthur Alik-Lagrange and Martin Ravallion, so the quote is authentic and comes from a work coauthored by Ravallion, though not solely authored by him. ([nber.org](https://www.nber.org/papers/w21041?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified quote from Martin Ravallion. The quote "A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay" is confirmed via web search as being from NBER Working Paper 21041, titled "Inconsistent Policy Evaluation: A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program" by Arthur Alik-Lagrange and Martin Ravallion (2015). The source URL (http://www.nber.org/papers/w21041) points to the correct paper — direct access returned 403 (NBER blocks automated requests), but multiple web search results confirm the paper, its authors, and its finding that basic income dominates workfare in poverty impact per budget dollar. The vote direction "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" is correct: the quote explicitly states basic income outperforms workfare for poverty reduction. Author attribution is correct — Ravallion is a renowned development economist and co-author of this paper. Year 2015 is correct. No more recent quote from Ravallion on this topic was found to replace it. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 2mo ago
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