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The Effect of Work Requirements in SNAP in Virginia

NCT04888832 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 12500

Last updated 2025-03-05

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Summary

More than a dozen states have proposed or plan to implement work requirements in Medicaid, and similar requirements already exist nationally in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), yet evidence on the effects of these policies is limited. In cooperation with the state of Virginia, the investigators plan to conduct a randomized controlled trial studying the impacts of work requirements in public programs on insurance coverage, SNAP participation, employment, and health, with a particular focus on changes in racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in these outcomes. The COVID-19 epidemic and concurrent economic downturn creates additional urgency around these issues, and the investigators will use a combination of national administrative data and a new population survey to assess disparities in employment, health care, and food insecurity during this crisis.

Conditions

  • Health Disparities
  • Food Security

Interventions

OTHER

Work requirement exemption months

Cross-randomized intervention will test effect of additional exemption months before work requirements in SNAP become binding and extensions of the standard SNAP recertification period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM)

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-04-01
Primary Completion
2025-05-01
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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