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Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health

Author(s) -

Sarah Baird,

Jacobus de Hoop,

Berk Özler

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the journal of human resources

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.855

H-Index - 106

eISSN - 1548-8004

pISSN - 0022-166X

DOI - 10.3368/jhr.48.2.370

Subject(s) - attendance , mental health , conditional cash transfer , psychology , socioeconomic status , distress , consumption (sociology) , adolescent health , developmental psychology , cash transfers , shock (circulatory) , demography , clinical psychology , cash , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , poverty , economics , population , social science , nursing , sociology , economic growth , macroeconomics

We investigate the effects of a positive income shock on mental health among adolescent girls using evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Malawi. Offers of cash transfers strongly reduced psychological distress among baseline schoolgirls. However, these large beneficial effects declined with increases in the transfer amount offered to the parents conditional on regular school attendance by the adolescent girls. Improved physical health, increased school attendance, personal consumption, and leisure contributed to the effects. There was also strong evidence of increased psychological distress among untreated baseline schoolgirls in treatment areas. All of these effects dissipated soon after the program ended.

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