[ { "trial": "T46", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_randomized", "why": "The comparison group was CalWORKs families picked for similarity to YoBI families (with less similar families substituted when most declined), not assigned at random; payments also topped families up to the California Poverty Measure." }, { "trial": "T47", "eligible": false, "reason": "no_eligible_outcome", "why": "A randomized trial of $50 a week for high school students whose report presents only GPA, attendance, financial capability, and self-perception outcomes, with no mental health or employment results or stated plan to report them." }, { "trial": "T48", "eligible": false, "reason": "no_control_arm", "why": "The only file is a news article on Gary's pilot paying 125 chosen residents $500 a month for 12 months, with no control group or randomized evaluation described." }, { "trial": "T49", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Randomized trial in Los Angeles County giving 300 young adults $1,000 a month for three years (with an optional job-training offer) against 650 controls, reporting Kessler-6 and employment outcomes.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Los Angeles County, California", "population": "Economically vulnerable young adults aged 18-24 (93% earned under $600 a month at baseline; 60% unhoused or at risk of losing housing)", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Treatment ($1,000 a month plus optional job training)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 1000, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 36, "n_randomized": 300 }, { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 650 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T49-1", "treated": "Treatment ($1,000 a month plus optional job training)", "control": "Control", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": null, "payment_months": 36, "waves": null, "mental_health_instruments": [ "Kessler 6 (K6)" ], "employment_measures": [ "employment", "monthly earnings", "job satisfaction (four-point scale)" ], "evaluator": "Single-author randomized evaluation in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Public and Social Services", "result_reports": [ "pilot:taypo_1" ], "notes": "Abstract only. Six rounds of surveys plus administrative data, but their timing is not stated, so waves are null. The treatment group also had the option of a job-training program that controls were not offered, so the comparison is cash plus a training offer. Instrumental-variable estimates use random assignment to caseworkers. This appears to be the same trial as T79 (TAYportunity plus Guaranteed Income, 300 vs 650, $1,000 a month for 36 months); the two should be merged." }, { "trial": "T50", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Registered individual-level RCT of $500 a month for two years to 3,250 Cook County residents against about 8,940 controls; the county's report presents participants' self-reported mental health and stress, and the evaluation's comparative results are pending.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Cook County, Illinois", "population": "Cook County residents who applied to the Promise pilot (more than 230,000 applications); income eligibility criteria are not stated in the files", "years": "2022-12 to 2025-01", "arms": [ { "label": "Cash transfer ($500 a month)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 500, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 24, "n_randomized": 3250 }, { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 8940 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T50-1", "treated": "Cash transfer ($500 a month)", "control": "Control", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2022-12", "payment_months": 24, "waves": null, "mental_health_instruments": [ "self-reported impact of the program on mental health and on stress (GiveDirectly survey of participants)" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "Inclusive Economy Lab, University of Chicago (evaluation); GiveDirectly (program administrator)", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Registration (AEARCTR-0010641) defers outcomes and design details to a pre-analysis plan not in the files; intervention dates 2022-12-15 to 2025-02-28, final payments January 2025 per the press release. Half of recipients (1,625 of 3,250) were also offered optional financial coaching (Working Credit); coded as one cash arm with that sub-arm noted. The press release's mental health and stress percentages come from a survey of participants only, with no control comparison, so no file holds comparative results; full quantitative findings were expected in fall 2025." }, { "trial": "T51", "eligible": false, "reason": "no_control_arm", "why": "HudsonUP chose recipients of $500 a month by weighted lottery, but its evaluation follows recipients only and the article states the study lacked a control group." }, { "trial": "T52", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Nationwide RCT in which 2,000 randomly selected unemployed people received a flat, untaxed €560 a month for two years in place of minimum unemployment benefits, compared with the remaining 173,222 in the target population, with register employment and survey and register mental health outcomes.", "country": "Finland", "sites": "Nationwide (all of Finland)", "population": "People aged 25-58 receiving Kela's minimum (basic or labour market subsidy) unemployment benefits in November 2016, excluding those temporarily laid off or on home care allowance", "years": "2017-01 to 2018-12", "arms": [ { "label": "Basic income (treatment group)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 560, "currency": "EUR", "per": "month", "months_paid": 24, "n_randomized": 2000 }, { "label": "Control group (rest of the target population, usual benefits)", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "EUR", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 173222 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T52-1", "treated": "Basic income (treatment group)", "control": "Control group (rest of the target population, usual benefits)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "none (simple random sampling by Kela on 15 December 2016)", "payment_start": "2017-01", "payment_months": 24, "waves": [ { "label": "Year 1 (2017) registers", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "employment", "earnings", "mental_health" ] }, { "label": "Year 2 (2018) registers", "months_since_first_payment": 24, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "employment", "earnings", "mental_health" ] }, { "label": "End-of-experiment telephone survey (15 Oct to 14 Dec 2018)", "months_since_first_payment": 22, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "employment", "life_satisfaction", "stress" ] }, { "label": "After the experiment (registers; years not stated)", "months_since_first_payment": null, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "MHI-5 (Mental Health Inventory, 5 items; score of 52 or less as mental strain)", "psychotropic medication use, defined daily doses (prescription register)", "outpatient mental health visits (secondary and primary care registers)", "self-reported mental distress and depression items in the end-of-experiment survey" ], "employment_measures": [ "days in employment per year (Finnish Centre for Pensions register; primary outcome)", "annual earnings (tax registers)", "employed at year-end (registers)", "months unemployed in the year", "self-reported employment status at the end of the experiment (survey)" ], "evaluator": "Kela (Social Insurance Institution of Finland) with VATT Institute for Economic Research, Labour Institute for Economic Research, University of Turku, University of Helsinki, Finnish Association for Mental Health, and Tänk", "result_reports": [ "openalex:W3167377507", "openalex:W4416858567", "openalex:W4285086002", "pmid:36767105", "openalex:W4417138655", "pmc:PMC12555240", "openalex:W4414272693", "openalex:W7131668656", "openalex:W4245106623", "openalex:W3193176234", "openalex:W3192851985", "openalex:W3191595179", "openalex:W2913727317" ], "notes": "The basic income replaced minimum unemployment benefits (net value €558) and was deducted from any further benefits claimed; it did not taper with earnings and removed job-search obligations, though many recipients still claimed benefits to get child and activation supplements. While out of work, disposable income was roughly unchanged; overlap with December 2016 benefits and the absence of a taper raised average income 9-11%. First payment 9 January 2017. The 2018 activation-model reform tightened benefit rules asymmetrically across arms, complicating year-2 estimates. The end-of-experiment survey targeted all treated and 5,600 controls and got 1,633 interviews (31% response among treated, 20% among controls), weighted for non-response. Register mental health results (psychotropic drugs, mental health visits) are reported for the two experimental years and as fading afterward, without exact post-experiment years. File openalex:W7221513009 describes a 1,000 vs 1,000 design with 12- and 24-month surveys and WHO-5, which contradicts every other report; it was not relied on or listed." }, { "trial": "T53", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Block-randomized trial of €1,200 a month for three years to 107 people living alone against 1,580 controls paid only survey incentives, reporting WHO-5, perceived stress, life satisfaction, and administrative and survey employment during and up to 18 months after payments.", "country": "Germany", "sites": "Nationwide (Germany)", "population": "People aged 21-40 living alone in Germany with net monthly income €1,100-2,600, not long-term unemployed, who registered for Mein Grundeinkommen's public call", "years": "2021-06 to 2024-05", "arms": [ { "label": "Treatment group (basic income)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 1200, "currency": "EUR", "per": "month", "months_paid": 36, "n_randomized": 107 }, { "label": "Control group", "kind": "control", "amount": 20, "currency": "EUR", "per": "year", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 1580 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T53-1", "treated": "Treatment group (basic income)", "control": "Control group", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "blocks of 32 built from 28 baseline variables (Mahalanobis distance), two treated per block; 53 blocks sampled to match the eligible population on gender, education, and income", "payment_start": "2021-06", "payment_months": 36, "waves": [ { "label": "Wave 1", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "stress", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "Wave 2", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "Wave 3", "months_since_first_payment": 18, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "Wave 4", "months_since_first_payment": 24, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "Wave 5", "months_since_first_payment": 30, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "Wave 6 (end of the program)", "months_since_first_payment": 36, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "Wave 7 (6 months after the final transfer)", "months_since_first_payment": 42, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress", "life_satisfaction" ] }, { "label": "Wave 8 (18 months after the final transfer)", "months_since_first_payment": 54, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress", "life_satisfaction" ] }, { "label": "IAB administrative records (monthly, averaged over the three payment years)", "months_since_first_payment": 36, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "employment", "earnings" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "WHO-5", "Perceived Stress Scale (subset of PSS-10 items)", "mental health index combining WHO-5 and PSS, and a mental health and wellbeing (MHW) index" ], "employment_measures": [ "employed, employed full-time, employed part-time (IAB Integrated Employment Biographies)", "earnings, employer costs, income tax and social insurance contributions (administrative)", "not unemployed and self-employed (survey)", "weekly working hours (survey)", "net earnings (survey)", "job transitions (new employer)" ], "evaluator": "DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research), WU Vienna, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, University of Oxford, with IAB administrative data; funded and implemented by Mein Grundeinkommen e.V.", "result_reports": [ "pilot:germ_3", "pilot:germ_2", "pilot:germ_1" ], "notes": "The only requirement for receiving payments was completing the six semiannual surveys. Control token: €10 per completed survey plus €30 for completing all six (coded as about €20 a year); all participants got €20 for each post-program survey. The registration's 1,377 controls plus 212 reserve became the 1,580 analysed controls (two reserves were promoted to treatment). Fourteen further recipients outside the randomization are excluded. WHO-5 and general life satisfaction were missing at wave 1 and PSS at wave 2. Outcomes analysed as changes from baseline (baseline about 3 months before payments). Administrative data cover consenting participants (99 treated, 1,278 controls). Survey labor outcomes are shown per wave during the program; whether the labor paper shows wave 7 is unclear, so wave 7 lists no labor measures. Hair cortisol was planned but not analysed." }, { "trial": "T54", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "A lottery among 8,200 eligible artists assigned 2,000 to €325 a week for three years and 1,000 to a control paid €650 a year for surveys, with depression, anxiety, life satisfaction, and work outcomes reported every six months.", "country": "Ireland", "sites": "Nationwide (Republic of Ireland)", "population": "Artists and creative arts workers (including those recently trained) aged 18+ in Ireland who applied and were assessed eligible; full-time students excluded", "years": "2022-10 to 2026-02", "arms": [ { "label": "BIA recipients (treatment group)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 325, "currency": "EUR", "per": "week", "months_paid": 42, "n_randomized": 2000 }, { "label": "Control group", "kind": "control", "amount": 650, "currency": "EUR", "per": "year", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 997 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T54-1", "treated": "BIA recipients (treatment group)", "control": "Control group", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "none (the report states no stratification was conducted)", "payment_start": "2022-10", "payment_months": 42, "waves": [ { "label": "April 2023 (6 months)", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "October 2023 (1 year)", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "April 2024 (18 months)", "months_since_first_payment": 18, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "October 2024 (2 years)", "months_since_first_payment": 24, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "April 2025 (2.5 years)", "months_since_first_payment": 30, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "felt depressed or downhearted in the last four weeks (yes/no)", "felt anxious in the last four weeks (yes/no)" ], "employment_measures": [ "did not work in the arts in the previous six months (inability to work in the arts)", "weekly hours spent working outside the arts", "weekly hours spent on arts work", "monthly take-home income from the arts and from outside the arts" ], "evaluator": "Basic Income for the Arts Research Team (IGEES staff), Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (later Department of Culture, Communications and Sport); cost-benefit analysis prepared for the Department", "result_reports": [ "pilot:bifa_1", "pilot:bifa_4", "pilot:bifa_2", "pilot:bifa_3" ], "notes": "Paid as €1,413.21 a month; first payments issued October 2022, backdated to the August 2022 selection; planned for three years (to August 2025) and extended six months to February 2026, so months_paid counts August 2022 to February 2026. The payment is taxed as self-employment income and counts as income for social protection means tests. Of 1,000 assigned controls, 408 declined and were replaced by further random draws (27 in treatment), leaving 2,000 and 997 at baseline. The baseline survey (from 14 October 2022) was fielded after assignment, around the first payment, and some outcomes already differed; analyses are difference-in-differences from October 2022. Participants who miss two surveys in a row are removed. The cost-benefit analysis covers waves to April 2025 using participants who completed baseline and the April 2025 wave (1,961 vs 893)." }, { "trial": "T55", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_flat", "why": "The SMI benefit topped household income up to a subsistence level and was recalculated quarterly, withdrawn at 100% or 25-35% of additional income, so no arm received a flat amount." }, { "trial": "T56", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_flat", "why": "The Dutch experiments varied the rules of means-tested social assistance (exemption from obligations, larger earnings disregards, extra guidance); every arm's benefit is withdrawn as earnings rise and no arm received flat cash." }, { "trial": "T57", "eligible": false, "reason": "no_control_arm", "why": "A mixed-methods case-history study of 14 forensic psychiatric clients who all received an income supplement (set once to bring income to €1,350), with no comparison group." }, { "trial": "T58", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_flat", "why": "The Ontario Basic Income Pilot reduced payments by 50 cents for each dollar of earned income, a negative-income-tax design." }, { "trial": "T59", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_flat", "why": "The 1968-1982 US and Canadian experiments tested negative income tax guarantees that are taxed away as earnings rise." }, { "trial": "T60", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Cluster-randomized (by shelter) trial giving CAD 7,500 once to 50 recently homeless people in Vancouver against 65 controls, reporting affect, psychiatric symptoms, and work hours over 12 months.", "country": "Canada", "sites": "Metro Vancouver, British Columbia (22 shelters from four shelter organizations)", "population": "People aged 19-65 homeless for under two years, Canadian citizens or permanent residents, without severe substance use, alcohol use, or psychiatric symptoms", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Condition 1: cash transfer, workshop, and coaching", "kind": "lump_sum", "amount": 7500, "currency": "CAD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 25 }, { "label": "Condition 2: cash transfer and workshop", "kind": "lump_sum", "amount": 7500, "currency": "CAD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 25 }, { "label": "Condition 3: workshop and coaching, no cash", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "CAD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 19 }, { "label": "Condition 4: no cash, workshop, or coaching", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "CAD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 46 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T60-1", "treated": "Condition 1: cash transfer, workshop, and coaching + Condition 2: cash transfer and workshop", "control": "Condition 3: workshop and coaching, no cash + Condition 4: no cash, workshop, or coaching", "kind": "lump_sum" } ], "randomization": "cluster", "stratified_by": "shelter organization (shelters randomized within organization)", "payment_start": null, "payment_months": null, "waves": [ { "label": "1 month", "months_since_first_payment": 1, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "3 months", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "6 months", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "9 months", "months_since_first_payment": 9, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "hours", "earnings" ] }, { "label": "12 months", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health", "life_satisfaction", "hours", "earnings" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "positive affect", "negative affect", "psychiatric symptomatology (Colorado Symptom Index; 3 and 12 months only)" ], "employment_measures": [ "weekly job hours", "hourly pay" ], "evaluator": "University of British Columbia research team", "result_reports": [ "pmid:37643214" ], "notes": "The comparison pools the arms as the report does (conditions 1 and 2 vs 3 and 4; the treated and control labels join exact arm labels with ' + '); the preregistered analyses compared cash with no cash at 1 month. All cash participants got the workshop but only 19 of 65 controls did, so the pooled contrast partly includes the workshop. All participants were offered survey honoraria, a free bank account, ID replacement, a resource booklet, and a used smartphone. The transfer did not affect provincial benefits. Payment dates are not stated (the transfer was paid after baseline; follow-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 months after it). Mental health at 1, 6, and 9 months rests on positive and negative affect; psychiatric symptomatology was measured at 3 and 12 months. 'earnings' here is hourly pay." }, { "trial": "T61", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Registered RCT planning a one-time CAD 8,500 transfer to 200 people experiencing homelessness in Metro Vancouver against 200 controls, tracking employment, health, and well-being; no results in the files.", "country": "Canada", "sites": "Metro Vancouver, British Columbia", "population": "People experiencing homelessness aged 18-65, Canadian citizens or permanent residents, excluding severe substance use, alcohol use, psychiatric symptoms, or problem gambling", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Cash", "kind": "lump_sum", "amount": 8500, "currency": "CAD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": null }, { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "CAD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": null } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T61-1", "treated": "Cash", "control": "Control", "kind": "lump_sum" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2022-05", "payment_months": null, "waves": [ { "label": "1 month", "months_since_first_payment": 1, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] }, { "label": "2 months", "months_since_first_payment": 2, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] }, { "label": "3 months", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] }, { "label": "6 months", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] }, { "label": "9 months", "months_since_first_payment": 9, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] }, { "label": "12 months", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": null, "employment_measures": [ "employment (planned; measure not specified)" ], "evaluator": "University of British Columbia (Jiaying Zhao) with Foundations for Social Change", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Registration (NCT05372978) and a title-only record of a 'conceptual self-replication' of New Leaf (T60); no results. Planned 200 cash and 200 control (estimated enrollment 400). Primary outcomes are days housed or homeless, savings, spending, and shelter costs at 1-3 months; employment, health, cognitive function, and well-being are listed among tracked outcomes. payment_start is the study start date (May 2022). Waves are the planned surveys after the transfer, none reported yet." }, { "trial": "T62", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Individual RCT of one-time $500 or $2,000 transfers to low-income US adults during COVID-19 against controls paid only for surveys, reporting a psychological well-being index at 1, 6, and 15 weeks.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Nationwide", "population": "Low-income US adults adversely affected by COVID-19 who had signed up for financial assistance from a partner non-profit and had not received its funding before", "years": "2020-08 to 2021-01", "arms": [ { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 3170 }, { "label": "$500 (Small Cash)", "kind": "lump_sum", "amount": 500, "currency": "USD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 1374 }, { "label": "$2,000 (Large Cash)", "kind": "lump_sum", "amount": 2000, "currency": "USD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 699 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T62-1", "treated": "$500 (Small Cash)", "control": "Control", "kind": "lump_sum" }, { "id": "T62-2", "treated": "$2,000 (Large Cash)", "control": "Control", "kind": "lump_sum" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2020-08", "payment_months": null, "waves": [ { "label": "t2 (1 week after cash receipt)", "months_since_first_payment": 0.2, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health" ] }, { "label": "t3 (6 weeks after cash receipt)", "months_since_first_payment": 1.4, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health" ] }, { "label": "t4 (15 weeks after cash receipt)", "months_since_first_payment": 3.5, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "mental_health" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "psychological well-being index (pre-specified; components listed in the analysis plan, not in these files)" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "Research team not named in the files, in partnership with a non-profit organization", "result_reports": [ "ppr:PPR602979" ], "notes": "Abstract and registration only. Cash paid about 3.5 weeks after the baseline survey, one week before t2; intervention dates 2020-08-12 to 2021-01-28. All arms were paid $20 per survey plus a $20 completion bonus and lottery tickets, so the control amount is 0. All participants were also cross-randomized to access to the non-profit's online peer platform; primary analyses collapse across it. A fifth survey (t5) was contingent on funding and is not reported. Bank transactions observed for 43% of the sample." }, { "trial": "T63", "eligible": false, "reason": "no_eligible_outcome", "why": "The one-time $C1,000 transfer trial measured COVID-19 symptoms, close contacts, general health, and ability to afford necessities over 14 days, with no mental health or employment outcomes reported or registered." }, { "trial": "T64", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_high_income", "why": "TED's $10,000 transfers were randomized across seven countries, three of them (Indonesia, Kenya, Brazil; 145 of 300 participants) not high income; recipients were also told to spend the money within three months, and outcomes are subjective well-being only." }, { "trial": "T65", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Three-arm RCT in Wilmington in which the cash-alone arm ($150 a week for six months, no requirements) versus a waitlisted control is eligible, reporting a physical and mental health composite built partly from psychological distress items; the cash-plus-programming arm required attending sessions.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Wilmington, Delaware (ZIP codes 19801, 19802, 19805)", "population": "Young men aged 14-17 in Medicaid-eligible families living in three high-crime Wilmington ZIP codes", "years": "2021-11 to 2022-05", "arms": [ { "label": "Cash transfer plus programming (conditional cash transfer)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 150, "currency": "USD", "per": "week", "months_paid": 6, "n_randomized": 59 }, { "label": "Cash transfer alone (unconditional cash transfer)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 150, "currency": "USD", "per": "week", "months_paid": 6, "n_randomized": 56 }, { "label": "Control group (waitlisted)", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "week", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 57 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T65-1", "treated": "Cash transfer alone (unconditional cash transfer)", "control": "Control group (waitlisted)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "race, ethnicity, and neighborhood (blocked); siblings kept in the same group", "payment_start": "2021-11", "payment_months": 6, "waves": [ { "label": "Monthly survey 1", "months_since_first_payment": 1, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "Monthly survey 2", "months_since_first_payment": 2, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "Monthly survey 3", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "Monthly survey 4", "months_since_first_payment": 4, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "Exit survey (after the program and cash transfer ended)", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "psychological distress items (nervous, hopeless, restless or fidgety, depressed, everything an effort, so sad nothing could cheer you up, worthless; Kessler-type) within a physical and mental health composite that also includes ER visits, injury, threats, chance of being killed by 21, and self-esteem items" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "Urban Institute with the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS)", "result_reports": [ "pmid:38637462", "ppr:PPR749617" ], "notes": "Randomized October 2021; cash ran six months from fall 2021 (month not stated, so payment_start 2021-11 is approximate) to May 2022 on a reloadable card. The cash-plus-programming arm received cash only after attending the first sessions (enough to submit forms), so its comparison is not eligible. 86% of the cash-alone arm picked up the card. Monthly surveys were not analysed because of low response; results come from the exit survey (126 completed) and school records, and the exit survey's exact timing is not stated (before control programming began in summer 2022). Employment status was asked in surveys but no employment results are reported. All participants got $20 gift cards per survey and $40 for the exit survey." }, { "trial": "T66", "eligible": false, "reason": "no_eligible_outcome", "why": "A pilot RCT of a $250 Visa card (about $83 a month for three months) for low-income adults who smoke, measuring quit attempts, abstinence, cigarettes per day, and food security, with no mental health or employment outcomes." }, { "trial": "T67", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Pilot RCT of $100 a month for three months on Visa cards to food-insecure cancer survivors versus usual care, reporting PROMIS Global Health mental health scores at three months (PHQ-9 and PSS-10 registered).", "country": "United States", "sites": "University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico", "population": "Food-insecure adults with stage I-III female breast or gynecological cancer diagnosed within 24 months who had completed initial cancer treatment", "years": "2021-09 to 2022-06", "arms": [ { "label": "Unconditional cash transfer (UCT)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 100, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 3, "n_randomized": 7 }, { "label": "Usual care (UC)", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 10 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T67-1", "treated": "Unconditional cash transfer (UCT)", "control": "Usual care (UC)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2021-09", "payment_months": 3, "waves": [ { "label": "3-month follow-up survey", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "PROMIS Global Health (mental health score)", "PHQ-9 (registered secondary outcome; not reported)", "Perceived Stress Scale PSS-10 (registered secondary outcome; not reported)" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center research team", "result_reports": [ "pmid:39447043" ], "notes": "Mailed $100 Visa merchandise cards usable wherever Visa is accepted. Recruitment September 2021 to March 2022 (permuted blocks of 10); 17 randomized, 14 completed follow-up (5 UCT, 9 UC). The usual-care arm received a one-time $300 after the 3-month follow-up (4 months after baseline), coded as 0 during follow-up. Both arms received nutrition pamphlets and access to support services. Years are approximate (recruitment period plus three months of payments; study completed June 2022)." }, { "trial": "T68", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Pilot RCT of $325 a month for four months versus a $25-a-month active control for Medicaid-eligible parents of preterm infants, reporting PHQ-2 and Perceived Stress Scale results at 2 and 4 months.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (level III neonatal intensive care unit)", "population": "Medicaid-eligible birthing parents aged 18+ of preterm infants (<37 weeks) in a Philadelphia NICU, enrolled within two weeks of birth", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "High-value UCT", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 325, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 4, "n_randomized": 12 }, { "label": "Low-value UCT (active control)", "kind": "control", "amount": 25, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 4, "n_randomized": 12 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T68-1", "treated": "High-value UCT", "control": "Low-value UCT (active control)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "gestational age (28 weeks or more vs under 28 weeks)", "payment_start": "2023-07", "payment_months": 4, "waves": [ { "label": "2-month survey", "months_since_first_payment": 2, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress" ] }, { "label": "4-month survey", "months_since_first_payment": 4, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "PHQ-2", "Perceived Stress Scale (stress)" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "University of Pennsylvania study team", "result_reports": [ "pmid:40216998" ], "notes": "Pilot focused on feasibility and acceptability; mental health outcomes are exploratory and reported descriptively by arm. Debit cards; first payment at enrollment, then within two days of each monthly birthday. 25 enrolled, one excluded after infant death; 19 completed the 2- and 4-month surveys. All participants received a benefits-counseling webinar. Enrollment began July 2023 (registration start 2023-07-26); the end of payments is not stated." }, { "trial": "T69", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Protocol for an RCT of $1,000 a month for 12 months versus treatment as usual among Medicaid beneficiaries with advanced cancer in Philadelphia, with HADS anxiety and depression and employment items planned; no results yet.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine; Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health)", "population": "Pennsylvania Medicaid beneficiaries with advanced cancer receiving chemotherapy or immunotherapy, or within 12 months of systemic therapy, at the recruitment sites", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Intervention arm ($1,000 a month UCT)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 1000, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 12, "n_randomized": null }, { "label": "Control arm (treatment as usual)", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": null } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T69-1", "treated": "Intervention arm ($1,000 a month UCT)", "control": "Control arm (treatment as usual)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "age and recruitment site (1:1.5 block randomization)", "payment_start": "2023-04", "payment_months": 12, "waves": [ { "label": "3 months", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "6 months", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "9 months", "months_since_first_payment": 9, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "12 months", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)", "SF-36 (role limitations due to emotional problems and emotional wellbeing subscales)" ], "employment_measures": [ "weekly hours of employment", "interruptions in employment and work reductions" ], "evaluator": "University of Pennsylvania study team (the Institute for Health Equity's inaugural project)", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Protocol and registration only (registration: start April 2023, primary completion July 2025). Planned 250: 100 intervention and 150 control (over-recruited for attrition), so n_randomized is null. payment_start is the trial start; payments begin after randomization. Both arms receive financial-toxicity information and social worker contacts; $30 per survey to all. An SSA waiver protects SSI eligibility. Mortality to be measured at 2, 3, and 5 years." }, { "trial": "T70", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Randomized waitlist-crossover trial of $500 a month for 12 months to Black emerging adults in San Francisco and Oakland, with the delayed arm as control for the first year and depressive episodes (CESD-R-10) and anxiety (GAD-7) as planned outcomes; no outcome results in the files.", "country": "United States", "sites": "San Francisco and Oakland, California", "population": "Low-income Black emerging adults aged 18-24 living in LIHTC qualified census tracts in San Francisco or Oakland", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Phase 1 GI", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 500, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 12, "n_randomized": 150 }, { "label": "Phase 2 GI (waitlist control in months 1-12)", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 150 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T70-1", "treated": "Phase 1 GI", "control": "Phase 2 GI (waitlist control in months 1-12)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "gender, age group, and city of residence (block randomization)", "payment_start": "2022-11", "payment_months": 12, "waves": [ { "label": "3 months", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "6 months", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "9 months", "months_since_first_payment": 9, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "12 months (crossover)", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "CESD-R-10 (major or probable major depressive episode)", "GAD-7 (score of 10 or more)", "Hope Matters Scale" ], "employment_measures": [ "employment and earnings (monthly SMS check-ins and quarterly surveys)", "enrollment in education or training ('investments in the future', primary outcome)" ], "evaluator": "University of California, San Francisco, with MyPath (implementation partner)", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Files hold the protocol, a baseline analysis, and qualitative interviews; no trial outcome results yet. Crossover: the Phase 2 arm receives $500 a month in months 13-24, so only months 1-12 compare cash with no cash (later surveys at 15-24 months omitted). Both arms are offered optional peer discussion groups and financial mentoring. 300 enrolled with equal allocation (registration: start November 2022, completed September 2025); payment_start is the enrolment start, with deposits on the first of each month. Survey remuneration and a $100 check-in bonus go to all participants." }, { "trial": "T71", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Pilot RCT paying $125 every two weeks (eight payments, $1,000) to Medicaid primary care patients in Philadelphia versus standard care, with K6+, state anxiety, and perceived stress results posted on ClinicalTrials.gov.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Penn Family Care clinic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "population": "Adult Pennsylvania Medicaid beneficiaries with prediabetes, diabetes, or hypertension on oral medication at a Philadelphia family medicine clinic", "years": "2023-03 to 2023-11", "arms": [ { "label": "Cash Transfer", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 125, "currency": "USD", "per": "two_weeks", "months_paid": 3.2, "n_randomized": 50 }, { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "two_weeks", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 50 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T71-1", "treated": "Cash Transfer", "control": "Control", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2023-03", "payment_months": 3.2, "waves": [ { "label": "12-week follow-up visit", "months_since_first_payment": 2.8, "during_payments": true, "measures": [ "mental_health", "stress" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6+)", "State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (state anxiety subscale)", "Perceived Stress Scale (short form, PSS-4; stress)" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "University of Pennsylvania (Penn Family Care) research team", "result_reports": [ "NCT05838027" ], "notes": "Eight payments of $125 via ClinCard, the first on the day of enrollment, totalling $1,000 over 14 weeks; follow-up at 12 weeks (registration: 3 months) while payments continued. Enrollment 27 March to 4 August 2023; permuted blocks of 4; 93 of 100 attended follow-up. All participants paid $25 at baseline and $50 at follow-up. Quantitative results are posted with the registration; the paper (pmid:41691989) is a qualitative sub-study." }, { "trial": "T72", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "RCT of $500 a month for 12 months to families referred to child protective services in three New York counties versus controls, with Kessler 10 and PSS-4 registered as outcomes; only a qualitative paper in the files.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Monroe, Onondaga, and Westchester counties, New York", "population": "Caregivers aged 18+ in families served through New York's Family Assessment Response track after a CPS report in the prior six months", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Treatment Group", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 500, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 12, "n_randomized": 150 }, { "label": "Control Group", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 300 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T72-1", "treated": "Treatment Group", "control": "Control Group", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "household", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2023-06", "payment_months": 12, "waves": [ { "label": "6 months", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "12 months", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "18 months", "months_since_first_payment": 18, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "Kessler 10", "Perceived Stress Scale-4", "Parental Stress Scale" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "Center for Guaranteed Income Research, University of Pennsylvania, with the New York State Office of Children and Family Services", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Registration (NCT05857553; 450 enrolled, about 150 treatment and 300 control, so arm sizes are approximate) and a qualitative study of 40 treated caregivers. Primary outcomes are CPS reports and foster care placements from administrative data at 18 months; mental health is secondary at 12 months. Payments by debit card disbursed by Youth Research Inc. payment_start is the trial start (June 2023). One caregiver per household; transfer described as to the household." }, { "trial": "T73", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_a_trial", "why": "The only file reports formative qualitative research and human-centered design for the Abundant Birth Project; recipients were drawn by lottery, but no control arm or outcome evaluation is described (unselected applicants stayed in the pool until selected or ineligible)." }, { "trial": "T74", "eligible": false, "reason": "not_unconditional_cash", "why": "The $1,200 microgrant had to fund income generation under a plan agreed with a mentor and came bundled with 12 weekly sessions, so no arm received unconditional cash (both arms got a $250 emergency payment)." }, { "trial": "T75", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Three-arm RCT for transgender and nonbinary adults comparing $150 a month for six months, with or without peer mentoring, against a single $150 microgrant, with Kessler 6 as the primary outcome; protocol only.", "country": "United States", "sites": "National, web-based", "population": "Transgender and nonbinary adults in the United States", "years": null, "arms": [ { "label": "Arm A: enhanced usual care (single $150 microgrant)", "kind": "control", "amount": 150, "currency": "USD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": null }, { "label": "Arm B: extended microgrants", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 150, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 6, "n_randomized": null }, { "label": "Arm C: peer mentoring (extended microgrants plus peer mentoring)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 150, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 6, "n_randomized": null } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T75-1", "treated": "Arm B: extended microgrants", "control": "Arm A: enhanced usual care (single $150 microgrant)", "kind": "recurring" }, { "id": "T75-2", "treated": "Arm C: peer mentoring (extended microgrants plus peer mentoring)", "control": "Arm A: enhanced usual care (single $150 microgrant)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": "gender identity (transgender man, transgender woman, nonbinary)", "payment_start": "2023-11", "payment_months": 6, "waves": [ { "label": "3-month process measures", "months_since_first_payment": 3, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "6-month survey (end of intervention)", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "12-month survey", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "Kessler 6 (K6), primary outcome" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "CARES study team (Duke University IRB of record) with the National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Protocol only; planned 360 (120 per arm), 138 enrolled by July 2024, so n_randomized is null. Soft launch November 2023 (payment_start), full recruitment from January 2024 to March 2025. Microgrants by Mastercard; the only condition is monthly date-of-birth verification. All arms receive monthly financial education videos. Arm A's single $150 equals arm B's first payment. Arm C adds peer mentoring, so C vs A also reflects mentoring. Survey incentives $50 at baseline and 6 months, $70 at 12 months, to all." }, { "trial": "T76", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "RCT of a one-time $500 transfer (recipients asked, without enforcement, to use it for their flagged social need) versus a $50 participation reward among Philadelphia primary care patients, with SF-12 registered as a secondary outcome.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Two internal medicine primary care practices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania)", "population": "Adult Medicare or Medicaid primary care patients in low-income Philadelphia zip codes with a chronic condition who screened positive for financial strain, transportation needs, or food insecurity", "years": "2021-11 to 2022-03", "arms": [ { "label": "Cash transfer ($500)", "kind": "lump_sum", "amount": 500, "currency": "USD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 15 }, { "label": "Control ($50 participation reward)", "kind": "control", "amount": 50, "currency": "USD", "per": "once", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 15 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T76-1", "treated": "Cash transfer ($500)", "control": "Control ($50 participation reward)", "kind": "lump_sum" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2021-11", "payment_months": null, "waves": [ { "label": "6-month follow-up interview", "months_since_first_payment": 6, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": [ "SF-12 (registered secondary outcome; results not reported)" ], "employment_measures": null, "evaluator": "University of Pennsylvania (Division of General Internal Medicine) study team", "result_reports": [], "notes": "The investigators call it a conditional cash transfer: a preloaded debit card given after the baseline interview, at which every participant set a 6-month health goal; recipients were asked to use it for their flagged social need, with no repercussions, payback, or expense review, so it is coded as an unconditional (labeled) transfer. The paper is qualitative (themes, goal attainment) and reports no mental health or employment results. Arm sizes are the registration's planned 15 each (30 enrolled; 25 follow-up interviews). Enrollment November 2021 to March 2022." }, { "trial": "T77", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Household RCT in Turin comparing an unconditional transfer (about €3,000 in three installments over six months) and a course-conditional transfer with a no-cash control, reporting employment, hours, and wages at 12 months.", "country": "Italy", "sites": "Turin (Municipality of Turin)", "population": "Low-income families (ISEE below €7,000) in Turin with a child aged 0-6 admitted to Ufficio Pio's AOS income support program, April-December 2016", "years": "2016-04 to 2017-06", "arms": [ { "label": "CCT group (conditional cash transfer)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 3000, "currency": "EUR", "per": "year", "months_paid": 6, "n_randomized": 533 }, { "label": "UCT group (unconditional cash transfer)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 3000, "currency": "EUR", "per": "year", "months_paid": 6, "n_randomized": 533 }, { "label": "Control group (CG)", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "EUR", "per": "year", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 521 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T77-1", "treated": "UCT group (unconditional cash transfer)", "control": "Control group (CG)", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "household", "stratified_by": "biweekly admission batch (randomization group)", "payment_start": "2016-04", "payment_months": 6, "waves": [ { "label": "Endline survey (12 months after admission)", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": false, "measures": [ "employment", "hours", "earnings" ] } ], "mental_health_instruments": null, "employment_measures": [ "worked at least one hour in the previous week", "days and hours worked in the previous week", "hourly wage", "employed with a regular contract", "job-search activities in the last two weeks", "measured for the respondent (mother of the youngest child) and her partner" ], "evaluator": "Collegio Carlo Alberto / CHILD researchers (University of Turin) with Ufficio Pio of the Compagnia di San Paolo", "result_reports": [ "openalex:W2910961751" ], "notes": "The transfer, about €2,500-3,500 a year varying with the number of dependent children (registration: €2,500-3,000), was paid as €500 at admission and €1,000-1,500 at months 3 and 6; amount 3000 per year is the approximate total paid over six months. The CCT arm had to attend two courses (job-seeking, work-family reconciliation, use of money, parenting) to receive installments, so CCT vs control is not an eligible comparison. Controls were offered a €100 food voucher for completing the endline survey (coded 0). Endline response 73%. Years are admissions April-December 2016 plus six months of installments. 'earnings' here is hourly wage." }, { "trial": "T79", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "Registered RCT in Los Angeles County giving 300 young adults $1,000 a month for 36 months with an optional job-training offer versus 650 controls, reporting employment and earnings (the same trial as T49).", "country": "United States", "sites": "Los Angeles County, California", "population": "Work-ready young adults aged 18-24 who applied to LA DPSS's TAYportunity plus Guaranteed Income program (3,211 applicants)", "years": "2022-08 to 2026-02", "arms": [ { "label": "Treatment (TAYportunity plus Guaranteed Income)", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 1000, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 36, "n_randomized": 300 }, { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 0, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 0, "n_randomized": 650 } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T79-1", "treated": "Treatment (TAYportunity plus Guaranteed Income)", "control": "Control", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "individual", "stratified_by": null, "payment_start": "2022-08", "payment_months": 36, "waves": null, "mental_health_instruments": [ "psychological well-being (registered primary outcome; instrument not named in these files)" ], "employment_measures": [ "employment", "monthly earnings", "labor hours supplied in the past month", "labor market income in the past month" ], "evaluator": "Dissertation author's research team (not named in the files) with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (LA DPSS)", "result_reports": [ "openalex:W7159681064" ], "notes": "Same trial as T49 (TAYportunity, LA County: 300 vs 650, $1,000 a month for 36 months); the two should be merged. Treatment was also offered optional job training (six months of subsidized employment at $15 an hour, apprenticeships, or entrepreneurship support) that controls were not, so the comparison is cash plus a training offer. Transfers by EBT card. Years are the registration's intervention dates (August 2022 to February 2026). Six survey waves (timing not stated, so waves are null) plus administrative arrest records; all respondents paid $20 per survey." }, { "trial": "T80", "eligible": true, "reason": null, "why": "RCT offering households leaving rapid re-housing in the Bay Area $800-$2,000 a month for 12 months versus a $50-a-month control, with administrative employment and earnings among the 2022 registration's secondary outcomes; no results yet.", "country": "United States", "sites": "Five counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, California", "population": "Heads of household aged 18+ exiting Abode Services' rapid re-housing programs and not in another cash transfer pilot", "years": "2024-05 to 2026-05", "arms": [ { "label": "Treatment", "kind": "recurring", "amount": 1200, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 12, "n_randomized": null }, { "label": "Control", "kind": "control", "amount": 50, "currency": "USD", "per": "month", "months_paid": 12, "n_randomized": null } ], "comparisons": [ { "id": "T80-1", "treated": "Treatment", "control": "Control", "kind": "recurring" } ], "randomization": "household", "stratified_by": "family type (single or adults-only vs families) and county", "payment_start": "2024-05", "payment_months": 12, "waves": [ { "label": "12 months after random assignment (administrative data)", "months_since_first_payment": 12, "during_payments": true, "measures": [] }, { "label": "24 months after random assignment (administrative data)", "months_since_first_payment": 24, "during_payments": false, "measures": [] } ], "mental_health_instruments": null, "employment_measures": [ "earnings, wage rate, employed, job exits and job starts (administrative; secondary outcomes in the 2022 registration only)" ], "evaluator": "Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), University of Notre Dame, with Stanford University; implementation partner Abode Services", "result_reports": [], "notes": "Treatment payments are fixed by family type and month (front-loaded, about $13,000-16,000 over 12 months), not by earnings; amount 1200 is an approximate monthly average. The 2022 registration planned 990 families (495/495, intervention from February 2023) with employment and earnings outcomes; the 2024 registration (from May 2024, used for years and payment_start, both planned) plans 545 families (218 treatment, 327 control) with homelessness, housing stability, and financial wellbeing only, as does the pre-analysis plan. Outcomes from administrative data (HMIS, Infutor, Experian). Randomization unit is given as family (2022) and individual (2024); one head of household per family." } ]