THE TOWN WITH NO POVERTY
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THE TOWN WITH NO POVERTY
What happens when you give an entire town a guaranteed annual
income?
I am indebted to Charles Burchill and Oke Ekuma for programming assistance, to CIHR for financial support (MOP 77533), and to MB Health and Healthy Living for data access. No official endorsement by MB Health and Healthy Living
is intended or implied.
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We wanted to know:
• What happens when a guaranteed income is offered to an entire community?
• In particular:– Does population health improve?
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MINCOME (1974 – 1978)
• In 1974, the governments of Canada and Manitoba implemented a large field experiment to assess the impact of a Guaranteed Income
• One of 5 North American GAI experiments
• Part of a general reform of social safety net
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MINCOME
• 2 experimental sites
– A dispersed sample in Winnipeg– A saturation site in Dauphin, MB
• The Dauphin site was the only saturation site in any of the 5 experiments: every family was eligible to participate
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MINCOME
• Was designed to find out what effects a Guaranteed Annual Income would have on the labour market
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Labour market results on Winnipeg sample:
• Researchers who examined the Winnipeg sample found that people who received a GAI worked fewer hours
BUT
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Labour market results on Winnipeg sample:
• Little reduction among adults working full-time jobs
• Significant effects for:– Married women returned to work less quickly after
childbirth– Adolescent children entered the workforce later and
reduced their hours of work significantly
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Health and Social Effects?
• Research funding for analysis ran out midway through the experiment– Families were paid– Research concentrated on labour market
• Social issues were not a primary research question – Data collected (by questionnaire)– No database constructed for social issues– No significant analysis of social issues
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Health and Social Effects?
• 1800 boxes of “data”:– paper copies of administrative records,– questionnaires, – reports of embedded anthropologists and
sociologists who lived in the communities– Interviews with subjects on social and family
interactions, labour market activity, decision-making etc.
• Limitations on our ability to contact participants
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Is there another way to get at the impact in Dauphin?
No analysis on Dauphin sample had ever been conducted
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The project ran from 1974 to 1978
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EDUCATION?
Grade 12 Enrolment as % Previous Year Grade 11 Enrolment
0.0
20.0
40.0
60.0
80.0
100.0
120.0
Dauphin
Winnipeg
Non-Winnipeg
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MCHP Information-Rich Environment:
Using Administrative Data
Population Registry
Hospital
Home Care
Pharmaceuticals
CostVital
Statistics
Provider
Nursing Home
Physician
Family Services Education
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OUR CHALLENGE
• Many things have happened since 1974
• How do we know that any changes we find are the result of MINCOME?
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SOLUTION
• We need to find a group of people who were similar to those who lived in Dauphin but who did not participate in the experiment
• Then we can compare how they did with how the Dauphin folks did
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First:
• We matched on geography
• We only considered people who lived in towns similar to Dauphin
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DAUPHIN
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Then we matched on other characteristics:
• Individual: age, sex
• Family: number of children, single parent female led
• Community: rural/small town
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We compared everyone who lived in Dauphin to 3 other similar
people:
• Excellent matches on all the matching variables
• We also looked at the 1971 census to make sure that they were not different in other ways (religion, ethnicity, employment variables, etc.)
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We found:
• Significant differences in:– % farmland planted in canola– Ethnicity (Dauphin is more “Ukrainian”) –
about 31% versus 10%
• Does ethnicity matter?
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OUR RESULTS….
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WERE THEY HEALTHIER?
• No direct measure– We examined contacts with the healthcare
system
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In 1973
Dauphin residents experienced:
19.23 more hospitalizations
per 1,000 population
+/- 2.096
(95% confidence level)
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By the second half of 1978
• The differential fell to zero
• Hospitalization rates for Dauphin residents fell 8.5% relative to the controls
• In 1978, Canada spent $ 7.4 billion on hospitals
• In 2010, Canada spent $50.4 billion
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HOSPITALIZATIONS
1974 1978
Comparisongroup
Dauphin
Rates
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Let’s look closer….
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HOSPITALIZATIONS: accidents and injuries
1974 1978
Comparison group
Dauphinrates
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HOSPITALIZATIONS:mental health diagnoses
1974 1978
Comparison group
Dauphin
rates
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Contacts with family doctors: same pattern
• Significant reduction in number of visits by Dauphinites relative to controls
• Mental health issues seemed to be the most significant reason for the decline
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Were there other effects?
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We looked at:
• Birth outcomes
• Birth rates
• Divorce rates
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Birth Outcomes
• Low Birthweight, At-risk birthweight, Small for gestational age births, perinatal death– No effect found
• Why?– Small numbers– Universal health insurance in Manitoba (unlike US)– Rural area (poverty does not manifest as food
insecurity)
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Birth and Divorce rates are affected by many factors
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Birth rates did not increase.
• Fertility fell all across North America during the 1970s, especially in rural areas
• Measured in a variety of ways, fertility fell further and faster among Dauphin women than among controls
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Divorce Rates
• No effect found
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CHILDREN MAY HAVE BEEN MOST AFFECTED
• Stayed in high school longer
• Had first child later
• Had fewer children over a lifetime
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But how did the families perceive MINCOME to have
affected their lives?
-these results are based on interviews conducted by Lindor Reynolds for the Free Press
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Amy Richardson (83)
Richardson family1970s
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Amy Richardson (83):
• She ran the Dauphin Beauty Parlor from her home
• Her husband retired at 53 because of health problems
• 6 children
• Used the extra money for luxuries like school books
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• “It was to bring your income up to where it should be. It was enough to add some cream to the coffee. Everybody was the same so there was no shame.”
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Hugh and Doreen Henderson
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Hugh and Doreen Henderson
• Lived in the country: raised chickens and grew their own food
• He was a school janitor
• She stayed home with the 2 children
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Hugh:
• “If a kid wants an education, and he’s willing to pay for it, I think the government should help. If we’d have had more money, I’d have loved to pay for university for my kids.”
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Doreen:
• “Give them enough money to raise their kids. People work hard, and it’s still not enough. This isn’t welfare. This is making sure kids have enough to eat.”
• “They should have kept it. It made a real difference.”
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Rick Zaplitny (58)
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Rick Zaplitny
• Was a chartered accountant and his income was too high to qualify for MINCOME support
• “We always felt the problem with the welfare system is it was punitive. You made money, and they took it away from you.”
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• “It seemed to us that MINCOME was for people who were on that line. They weren’t deadbeats. They needed a bit of a boost.”
• “I’d be in favour of it [now]. Helping someone have a decent living wage is hard to argue with.”
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QUESTIONS?