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The Stanford Basic Income Lab conducts research on basic income and serves as a clearing house for data related to recent basic income trials. Their "dashboard" of data about these trials is listed separatelty on the Shares site. 


Here's the "about" from the Stanford Basic Income Lab site:

The Stanford Basic Income Lab (BIL) was founded by philosophy professor Juliana Bidadanure in 2017 to study the politics, philosophy, economics and implementation of universal basic income (UBI) and related policies. At the time, interest was picking up in UBI as a tool to address technological unemployment. Bidadanure saw an opportunity to promote an informed public conversation on unconditional cash’s potential to foster a more equitable society by addressing persistent poverty, growing inequalities, and racial and gender injustice.

Initially housed at Stanford’s McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, BIL grew as a research initiative to become an academic hub for basic income studies. In September 2023, when Bidadanure moved to New York University, BIL joined the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), directed by Professor David Grusky. Sean Kline, who had joined BIL as Associate Director in 2021, led the Lab’s activities through March 2024, while Bidadanure has continued as a Senior Advisor to BIL. As part of CPI, BIL continues to equip the field with insights and benefits from CPI’s broad mission to monitor trends, support scientific analysis, develop evidence-based policy, and disseminate research on poverty and inequality.

Stanford Basic Income Lab

The Basic Income Lab equips the field and convenes stakeholders around the politics, philosophy, economics and implementation of basic income and related cash policies.

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