Trial reportJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2023
Impact of Guaranteed Income on Health, Finances, and Agency: Findings from the Stockton Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07115901 (Guaranteed Income to Boost HIV Care Continuity and Suppression Post-Jail Release), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Guaranteed Income to Boost HIV Care Continuity and Suppression Post-Jail Release
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations Between Unconditional Cash Transfers and Postpartum Outcomes in the United States : A Systematic Review.Annals of internal medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Unconditional cash transfers to improve health behaviors among primary care patients: a qualitative sub-study of a randomized clinical trial.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Trial
- Time Scarcity, Health Behaviors, and Unconditional Cash in Los Angeles.American journal of public health · 2025Trial
- Cash Transfers and After-School Programs: A Randomized Controlled Trial for Young Men at Risk of Violence Exposure in Wilmington, Delaware.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2024Trial
- BIG cuts, BIG solutions: the case for basic income guarantee for low income people with HIV.AIDS (London, England) · 2026Article
- "I'd Probably Be Homeless": Basic Income Participants' Lived Experiences Related to Housing Stability, Health, and Wellbeing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- No strings attached: a mixed methods evaluation of the acceptability of the San Francisco Abundant Birth Project, a perinatal guaranteed income program.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Pediatric RISE: Development of a Poverty-Targeted Cash Support Intervention for Pediatric Cancer.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2026Article
- Anxiety symptoms as the central node: a network analysis of mental health sequelae in a post-COVID-19 national sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Safety Net Programs as Primary Prevention Against Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the United States: Natural Experiments with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health - a review of studies in the United States.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Review
- Baltimore community resident and collaborator perspectives on the influence of guaranteed income on health: a formative qualitative study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Effects of an Intervention on Black Family Incomes on Self-Rated Health and Obesity in Black and White Adolescents and Young Adults.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Effects of guaranteed basic income interventions on poverty-related outcomes in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Review
- A guaranteed income intervention to improve the health and financial well-being of low-income black emerging adults: study protocol for the Black Economic Equity Movement randomized controlled crossover trial.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Social Risk Factors and Their Effect on Health Care Costs in a Midwestern Health Care System.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
The purpose of this experiment was to test the effects of a $500 per month guaranteed income for 2 years on health and financial outcomes. A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial in Stockton, CA, USA enrolled 131 individuals to the treatment condition and 200 to control to receive a guaranteed income from February 2019 to January 2021. Quantitative data collection began 3 months prior to allocation at 6-month intervals concluding 6 months after withdrawal of the intervention. Qualitative data collection included 105 interviews across 3 stages. The primary outcomes were income volatility, physical and mental health, agency, and financial wellbeing. The treatment condition reported lower rates of income volatility than control, lower mental distress, better energy and physical functioning, greater agency to explore new opportunities related to employment and caregiving, and better ability to weather pandemic-related financial volatility. Thus, this study provides causal evidence of positive health and financial outcomes for recipients of guaranteed income. As income volatility is related to poor health outcomes, provision of a guaranteed income is a potentially powerful public health intervention.
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