Quantitative Measurement and Analysis
Data collection began in December 2018. Subsequent waves were as follows: Wave 2: January/February 2019; Wave 3: August 2019; Wave 4: February 2020; Wave 5: August 2020; Wave 6: February 2021 (Final disbursement); and Wave 7: August 2021 (6-month follow-up). The onset of the pandemic in March 2020 directed analytic decision-making, as the history effect threatened both the internal and external validity of the experiment. As such, quantitative data were separated to test the effects of guaranteed income given typical economic, environmental, and health threats as well as the withdrawal of the intervention. As such, the data were analyzed at three time points: baseline of December 2018 through Wave 4 of February 2020, Wave 5 of August 2020 through Wave 6 in February 2021 to capture data during the first year of the pandemic, Wave 7 in August 2021 to test effects of the withdrawal of the intervention.