Clinical trialNCT07200648CompletedInterventional

Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot

SponsorUniversity of PennsylvaniaEnrollment8,194Educational AttainmentEmploymentFamily DynamicsFinancial WellbeingFood SecurityHealth+6 more conditions

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Summary

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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

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Investigators

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Amy Castro, PhD
The University of Pennsylvania
Principal Investigator
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Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
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Stacia West, PhD
The University of Tennessee
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Community Investment for Families Department - City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 1 Dec 2021
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2023
Completion: 31 Aug 2024
Last update posted: 1 Oct 2025
Registered enrollment: 8,194
Registry id: NCT07200648

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