Income Shocks and Adolescent Mental Health

In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of positive income shocks on the mental health of adolescent girls using experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Malawi. They find that the provision of monthly cash transfers had a strong beneficial impact on the mental health of school-age girls during the two-year intervention. Among baseline schoolgirls who were offered unconditional cash transfers, the likelihood of suffering from psychological distress was 38 percent lower than the control group, while the same figure was 17 percent if the cash transfers offers were made conditional on regular school attendance. The authors find no impact on the mental health of girls who had already dropped out of school at baseline. The beneficial effects of cash transfers were limited to the intervention period and dissipated quickly after the program ended.

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Main Authors:	Baird, Sarah, de Hoop, Jacobus, Ozler, Berk
Language:	English
Published:	2011-04-01
Subjects:	ABORTION, ABUSE, ADHD, ADOLESCENCE, ADOLESCENT GIRLS, ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY, ADOLESCENT WOMEN, ADOLESCENTS, AGED, AIDS EPIDEMIC, ANEMIA, ANXIETY, ANXIETY DISORDERS, BULLETIN, BURDEN OF DISEASE, CHILD HEALTH, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, COHORT STUDY, COMMON MENTAL DISORDERS, COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, COMMUNITY HEALTH, DEPRESSION, DEPRESSION SCALE, DEPRESSIVE, DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS, DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DIAGNOSES, DIAGNOSIS, DISABILITY, DISEASE, DROPOUT, EARLY CHILDHOOD, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EMOTIONS, EPIDEMIC, EPIDEMIOLOGY, FEMALE ADOLESCENTS, FEMALES, FERTILITY, GLOBAL AIDS EPIDEMIC, GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH CONSEQUENCES, HEALTH ECONOMICS, HEALTH EFFECTS, HEALTH INDICATORS, HEALTH INTERVENTIONS, HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS, HEALTH ORGANIZATION, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH STATUS, HIV/AIDS, HOUSEHOLD ASSETS, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, IMMUNODEFICIENCY, INCOME, INCOME INEQUALITY, INFANTS, INTERVENTION, JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LIFE EVENTS, LIVING STANDARDS, MAJOR DEPRESSIVE, MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS, MEDICINE, MENTAL, MENTAL DISORDERS, MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS, MENTAL HEALTH INDICATORS, MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES, MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, MENTAL HEALTH STATUS, MIGRATION, MOOD, MORBIDITY, MOTHER, NUMBER OF GIRLS, NUTRITION, OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE, PEDIATRICS, PERSONALITY, PHYSICAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, PREVALENCE, PRIMARY CARE, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, PROBABILITY, PROGRESS, PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY, PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC HEALTH, QUALITY OF LIFE, RATES OF GROWTH, RESPECT, RISK FACTORS, RURAL AREAS, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL YEAR, SCHOOL YEARS, SCREENING, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SEX, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, SEXUAL HEALTH, SEXUALLY ACTIVE, SIBLINGS, SLEEP, SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES, SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION, SOCIAL EXCLUSION, SOCIAL PHOBIA, SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, SPILLOVER, SUBSISTENCE FARMING, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN AREAS, VIOLENCE, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, YOUNG CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG WOMEN, Microdata Set,
Online Access:	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110428092412 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/3407
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