Article Review: Evaluating Alaska’s UBI Program

Julian Hartwell
4 min readApr 15, 2021

Critiquing an evaluation of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend’s impact on tribal Alaskans for MSSP 629: Research and Evaluation Design at Penn

Purpose of Study

“Resource rents, universal basic income, and poverty among Alaska’s Indigenous peoples” by Matthew Berman (2018) examines the effect of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) on mitigating poverty…

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Julian Hartwell

Graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Social Policy and Data Science.