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Week Three Webinar

What We Know and Developing Research to Fill the Gaps

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Testing Guaranteed Income as an Innovative Solution

To Economic Instability

City Solutions Sprint

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October 22, 2020

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  • Welcome & Housekeeping
  • Introduction to Speakers
  • What we Know And Developing Research to Fill the Gaps
  • Discussion
  • Sprint Next Steps

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Agenda

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Housekeeping

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  • Please remain on Mute unless asked to share
  • If bandwidth allows, please consider sharing your video while speaking.
  • Update your name to read “First Name_City, State”
    • Click Participants
    • Select your name, then select “Rename”
  • In the chat box:
    • Share your position and role with your city
    • Share any questions you may have
  • All sessions will be recorded; shared with registered participants.

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Introductions - Experts

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Dr. Amy Castro Baker

Co-PI of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration

Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research

Dr. Baker’s research explores economic mobility, practice innovation, and how social policies contribute to gender and race disparities in housing and lending. She was awarded the GADE Research Award, the Society for Social Work and Research Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Nina Fortin Award for her work on women and risky lending during the foreclosure crisis.

Dr. Stacia Martin-West,

Co-PI of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration

Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee

Co-Founder and Director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research

Dr. Martin-West’s research focuses on guaranteed income and unconditional cash transfers, women's income and wealth inequality, and the affordable housing crisis. Prior to joining the faculty at UT, Dr. Martin-West practiced as a social worker helping communities research and implement Housing First and Permanent Supportive Housing policies to end homelessness.

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Guaranteed Income Research

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Researching Guaranteed Income

  • What can the existing research tell us?
  • What can we learn?
  • How can your city contribute?
  • The Center for Guaranteed Income Research

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Existing Research: History

  • Key experiments
    • SIME/DIME
    • Alaska Permanent Fund
    • Casino Dividends
  • What did we learn?
    • Education: little impact
    • Health and wellbeing: positive impact
    • Labor markets: negligible impact

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Current Experiments

  • Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration
  • Y-Combinator, Unknown locations
  • Transition Aged Youth Basic Income Pilot, Santa Clara, CA
  • Preserving our Diversity, Santa Monica, CA
  • Baby First Years, Multiple sites
  • Magnolia Mother’s Trust, Jackson, MI

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What are we missing?

  • How subpopulations of people experience guaranteed income differently
  • Geographic variability
  • Outcomes based on recurrent payments (Stockton) vs. one-time payments (EITC; CARES Act)
  • Consistent methods across pilots
  • Implementation and scaling

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What can we learn?

  • Who does guaranteed income work best for and how?
  • What limits should be placed on guaranteed income?
  • How does guaranteed income interact with the existing policy landscape and markets?
  • What infrastructure would it take to scale a guaranteed income program or policy across an entire community?
  • How does guaranteed income function differently in various geographic regions?
  • How can guaranteed income programs utilize data-driven solutions to reduce inefficiency in government programs to build trust and support for cash-transfers initiatives?

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How can your city contribute?

  • Partner with the Center for Guaranteed Income Research

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  • Choose outcomes and subpopulations that will drive policy

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  • Engage in mixed-methods research AND storytelling to shift narrative

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The Center for Guaranteed Income Research

Purpose

  • A one-stop shop to help cities conduct evaluations of their pilots
  • Merges data from all cities to answer key research questions
  • Centralized guaranteed income data visualization
  • Evidence-based data to inform local and Federal policy on cash
  • Create national pipeline to cash-transfer research for underrepresented scholars

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Mixed Methods Research

Goal: Determine what changes occur by introducing unconditional cash (quantitative) and why (qualitative). Example: Spending Data Dashboard

Quantitative Core

  • Survey every six months, starting at baseline
  • Includes measures of health, wellbeing, finances, housing, family dynamics, hope/mattering, and stress

Quantitative Local

  • Choose outcomes of interest to your local community and potential donor base

Qualitative: What is the story behind the numbers?

  • Select participants participate in in-depth interviews
  • Multi-site ethnography: The Guaranteed Income Diaries

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Services at CGIR

  • Sampling: How do we pick the people to receive the cash?
  • Randomization: Should we have a control group?
  • Recruitment and Consent: Ensuring ethically sound research
  • Survey Design: Which outcomes should we measure locally?
  • Data Collection: Fielded through secure software
  • Data Analysis: Complete analysis of site-specific and national data
  • Dissemination: Data dashboard, narrative database, and outcome evaluation

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CGIR Structure

  • Housed at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Directed by Drs. Castro Baker and Martin-West
  • PhD Research Associates advise and help implement your research activities
  • A local Research Fellow, nominated by your City, implements the day to day research protocols

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Discussion

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Next Steps

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Homework

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To Read and Review:

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To Do List for Participants

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WWC Academy - Online Learning Management System

  • Register in WWC Academy with code sent to your team
  • Access Guaranteed Income Sprint course page here.
  • Email CitySolutions@results4america.org with questions.

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Discussion Sessions - We are planning an additional discussion session for the week of 11/9 to cover topics more in depth such as: starting a working group, developing a pilot, and/or research. We’ll be in touch about scheduling the additional session in the coming week.

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Next Session

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Week 4: Building a Guaranteed Income Demonstration

Thursday, October 29, 3:00–4:00 p.m. EDT

Add it to your calendar here.

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Thank you for attending the webinar.

Any questions?

Email CitySolutions@Results4America.org