Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

Author: K. Widerquist

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1137015020

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Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.


Exporting the Alaska Model

Exporting the Alaska Model

Author: K. Widerquist

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1137031654

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This timely book examines how the "Alaska model" can be adapted for use elsewhere, examining issues of implementation and showing that this model can be employed even in resource-poor areas in the industrialized and in the industrializing world.


The Governor's Solution

The Governor's Solution

Author: Todd Moss

Publisher: CGD Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1933286709

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Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his first-hand account that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humour, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982. Thirty years later, Hammond's vision is still influencing oil policies throughout the world. This reader, part of the Center for Global Development's Oil-to-Cash initiative, includes recent scholarly work examining Alaska's experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. It is as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous difference --even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.


The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers

The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers

Author: Damon Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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What are the effects of universal and permanent cash transfers on the labor market? Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have been entitled to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Using data from the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, we show that the dividend had no effect on employment, and increased part-time work by 1.8 percentage points (17 percent). Although theory and prior empirical research suggests that individual cash transfers decrease household labor supply, we interpret our results as evidence that general equilibrium effects of widespread and permanent transfers tend to offset this effect, at least on the extensive margin. Consistent with this story, we show suggestive evidence that tradable sectors experience employment reductions, while non-tradable sectors do not. Overall, our results suggest that a universal and permanent cash transfer does not significantly decrease aggregate employment.


Oil to Cash

Oil to Cash

Author: Todd Moss

Publisher: CGD Books

Published: 2015-06-10

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1933286695

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Oil to Cash explores one option to help countries with new oil revenue avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens. A universal, transparent, and regular cash transfer would not only provide a concrete benefit to regular people, but would also create powerful incentives for citizens to hold their government accountable. Oil to Cash details how and where this idea could work and how policymakers can learn from the experiences with cash transfers in places like Mexico, Mongolia, and Alaska.


Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend

Author: K. Widerquist

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1137015020

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Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit from an Alaskan-style dividend. The book also looks at possible ways that the model might be altered and improved.