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Cash Benefits and Reproductive/Perinatal Health
Sponsor: Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)
Summary
During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Chelsea, Massachusetts held a lottery to allocate cash benefits to its residents for ten months. Using data from the Chelsea Eats program, the investigators propose to study the impact of the cash benefit on reproductive and perinatal health.
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
15 Years - 44 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
3615
Start Date
2020-07-27
Completion Date
2025-08-31
Last Updated
2024-07-12
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Cash Benefit
Spending from the cards was not restricted to food but could be spent on anything and anywhere Visa was accepted. The debit cards were credited with the first payment on November 18th, 2020 and the second payment on December 18th, 2020. The program continued with monthly credits through August 2021.
No Cash Benefit
No monthly cash benefit.
Locations (1)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States