Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot (BIG:LEAP)

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

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

Treatments: Other: Unconditional cash transfer

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07200648

849819

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 8,194 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older,
• Resident of Los Angeles, CA,
• At or below 100% of Federal Poverty Level
• Have been negatively impacted by COVID-19
• Have a dependent

Exclusion criteria

• less than 18 years of age
• not a resident of Los Angeles, CA
• Above 100% of Federal Poverty Level
• Not negatively impacted by COVID-19
• Do not have a dependent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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8,194 participants in 2 patient groups

Guaranteed income

Experimental group

Description:

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

Treatment:

Other: Unconditional cash transfer

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention