Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health
Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health
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DOI：
10.1353/jhr.2013.0014
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Oezler, Berk
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作者：
Baird, Sarah;de Hoop, Jacobus;Oezler, Berk
我们利用马拉维现金转移实验的证据，调查了积极收入冲击对青春期女孩心理健康的影响。提供现金转移极大地减少了基线女学生的心理困扰。然而，这些巨大的有益影响随着向父母提供的以青春期女孩正常上学为条件的转移金额的增加而下降。身体健康状况的改善、上学人数的增加、个人消费和休闲活动的增加都起到了促进作用。也有强有力的证据表明，在接受治疗的地区，未经治疗的基线女学生的心理困扰有所增加。所有这些影响在项目结束后不久就消失了。
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.