I’m pleased to share that I’ve been invited by the ILO Social Protection unit for Arab States to speak as a panelist in the tenth session of the Arab Social Protection Compass webinar series, organized by the International Labour Organization

New study of Iran's almost-UBI shows that replacing fossil fuel subsidies with a universal and unconditional cash transfer reduces consumption inequality by 8% per $30/mo per person.

Study by @alimok.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New causal evidence in JEEM: Iran’s move from fuel subsidies to (near) universal cash transfers reduces inequality. Reallocating about $1 per person per day cuts the expenditure Gini by ~8%.
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #EnvironmentalEconomics
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My new findings on Iran’s 2010 Energy Subsidy to Cash Program show that it uniquely resembles a true Universal Basic Income (UBI) at the national level—even under the strict criteria of Hoynes and Rothstein (2019).

MASSIVE new study of Iran's UBI-like monthly cash program:
- Adult work didn't go down
- CHILD LABOUR went down to focus on school
- Drug use didn't go up