Availability of Data from the Graduated Work Incentive Experiment

Abstract

The preceding papers in this special section of the Journal are summaries of the first exploitation of the data collected during the New Jersey-Pennsylvania experiment. In a real sense, however, one of the most important products of the experiment so far is the extensive data base itself. Certainly, the most important ultimate scientific outcome will be the collective judgment of the research community on the relevance of the data in shedding new light on the issues of labor supply and income maintenance in general. Such a judgment can only be arrived at through access to the data by independent scholars. This paper presents a general description of the data available.1