ERC Starting Grant · 2018
Slavery, Work and Freedom: What Can Cash Transfers Contribute to the Fight for Decent Work?
WorkFREE builds on the widespread empirical observation that everywhere people who are stuck in indecent, exploitative or ‘unfree’ work nevertheless choose that work because doing so represents their best available option, and asks a simple yet potentially revolutionary question: What happens if we just give them money? It will answer this question by creating a world-first social experiment, administering 18 months of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) to four communities typically associated with that work and contrasting findings from them with those from parallel control communities. WorkFREE will thus become the first project anywhere to combine research on cash transfers (CTs) with…
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