Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2017
Impacts of Family Rewards on Adolescents' Mental Health and Problem Behavior: Understanding the Full Range of Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program.
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- Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Programs on Psychological Development of Children and Adolescents at Risk of Poverty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Pooled it
- Annual Research Review: Cash transfer programs and young people's mental health - a review of studies in the United States.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Review
- Associations between the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer programme and substance use disorder hospitalisations: a quasi-experimental study of the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.The Lancet. Global health · 2025Article
- Brazilian conditional cash transfer programme's impact on youth human capital outcomes: the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- The effect of the US Child Tax Credit advance payments in 2021 on adolescent mental health: Changes in depression symptoms and suicidality.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Implications of Cash Transfer Programs for Mental Health Promotion among Families Facing Significant Stressors: Using Ecological Systems Theory to Explain Successes of Conditional and Unconditional Programs.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Scoping Review to Identify Community- and Societal-Level Strategies Evaluated from 2013 to 2023 for Their Potential Impact on Child Well-Being in the United States.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Unconditional Cash Transfers for Families with Children in the U.S.: A Scoping Review.Review of economics of the household · 2024Article
- The role of stress phenotypes in understanding childhood adversity as a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Review
- Short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on mental health and health behaviors.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Financial Incentives for Promoting Participation in a School-Based Parenting Program in Low-Income Communities.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Article
- The relationship between cash-based interventions and violence: A systematic review and evidence map.Aggression and violent behaviorArticle
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Abstract
This paper examines the effects of Opportunity New York City-Family Rewards, the first holistic conditional cash transfer (CCT) program evaluated in the USA, on adolescents' mental health and problem behavior (key outcomes outside of the direct targets of the program) as well as on key potential mechanisms of these effects. The Family Rewards program, launched by the Center for Economic Opportunity in the Mayor's Office of the City of New York in 2007 and co-designed and evaluated by MDRC, offered cash assistance to low-income families to reduce economic hardship. The cash rewards were offered to families in three key areas: children's education, family preventive health care, and parents' employment. Results that rely on the random assignment design of the study find that Family Rewards resulted in statistically significant reductions in adolescent aggression and rates of substance use by program group adolescents as well as their friends, relative to adolescents in the control condition, but no statistically significant impacts on adolescent mental health. One possible mechanism for the benefits to adolescent behavior appears to be time spent with peers, as fewer adolescents in the program group spent time with friends and more adolescents in the program group spent time with family. Findings are discussed with regard to their implication for conditional cash transfer programs as well as for interventions targeting high-risk youth.
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