Effect of Cash Benefits on Health Care Spending

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Conditions studied: Health Care Costs, Health Care Utilization

In brief

During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Chelsea, Massachusetts held a lottery to allocate monthly cash benefits to its residents. Using data from the Chelsea Eats program, the investigators propose to study the impact of the cash benefit on health care spending.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07381049

Run by

Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

People needed

3615

Starts

2020-07-27

Expected to finish

2026-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-05

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Resident of Chelsea, Massachusetts
• Household income at or below 30% of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Area Median Income

You may not qualify if…

• See inclusion criteria

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Harvard University — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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