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Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot

NCT07200648 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8194

Last updated 2025-10-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to learn if receipt of a guaranteed income works to reduce financial hardship and improve quality of life. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. How does GI affect participants' quality of life?
2. What is the relationship between GI and participants' subjective sense of self?
3. How does GI affect participants' income, and through what mechanisms?
4. How does the implementation of GI inform the existing safety net?

Participants will:

Receive an recurring unconditional cash transfer of $1,000 per month every month for 12 months OR receive no unconditional cash transfer Complete surveys at six month intervals during the course of the study Be invited to participate in in-depth interviews

Conditions

  • Financial Wellbeing
  • Psychological Distress
  • Physical Functioning
  • Housing
  • Food Security
  • Income
  • Educational Attainment
  • Health
  • Well-being/Quality of Life
  • Employment
  • Family Dynamics
  • Stress

Interventions

OTHER

Unconditional cash transfer

$1,000 unconditional cash transfer per month for 12 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The City of Los Angeles

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Pennsylvania

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stacia West, PhD · The University of Tennessee

  • Amy Castro, PhD · The University of Pennsylvania

  • Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim, PhD · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-01
Primary Completion
2023-09-30
Completion
2024-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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