This brief summarizes the income shocks and adolescent mental health in Malawi. Monthly transfers were made from 2008 to the end of 2009; in total the intervention lasted two years. The author investigates 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...
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2013/08/14
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2013/09/27
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Income shocks and adolescent mental health
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Cash Transfer
Citation
Baird,Sarah Jane; De Hoop,Jacobus Joost; Ozler,Berk.
Income shocks and adolescent mental health (English). enGender Impact : the World Bank's Gender Impact Evaluation Database Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/126291468326142719