NCT07200648

Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8,194 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Unconditional cash transfer	$1,000 unconditional cash transfer per month for 12 months

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2024-08-31
• First posted: 2025-10-01
• Last updated: 2025-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States