Evaluating a ‘Minimum Income Guarantee’ and modelling major income supplementation policies: A development award

Economic conditions are well-recognised as key drivers of health and wellbeing inequalities. There is considerable interest in using major income supplementation policies (MISPs) such as Universal Basic Income to reduce such inequalities. Evaluating such interventions is challenging because they give rise to cascades of complex causal, temporal, and spatial effect dynamics. The project aims to overcome some of these challenges by applying a systems lens to the problem, building towards two planned future studies: 1) evaluating the introduction of a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) in Scotland; and 2) using policy modelling techniques to explore potential health effects of a range of MISPs.