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...
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2011/04/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS5644
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2011/04/01
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Income shocks and adolescent mental health
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Mental health