ArticleHealth economics2021
Money and my mind: Maternal cash transfers and mental health.
Article in Health economics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03131193 (Estimating the Returns to Provider Human Capital), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Estimating the Returns to Provider Human Capital
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Tools for screening maternal mental health conditions in primary care settings in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
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- Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Mental Health Around Pregnancy.Health economics · 2026Article
- Economic interventions for the prevention of mental health problems: The role of cash transfers.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2024Article
- Mental health penalties of having a child: findings from the China family panel studies.Npj mental health research · 2023Article
- Money and my mind: Maternal cash transfers and mental health.Health economics · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper documents important mental health spillovers in the context of a program that offered pregnant women modest cash incentives to use pre- and perinatal health care services. Program participation was randomized and the payments were made after the birth of the child (and after the completion of an endline mental health assessment). I present causal evidence that the program led to improvements in mothers' mental health. The effect size ranges from a 1-3 percentage point reduction in postpartum depression measured using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. I present suggestive evidence that these beneficial effects on mental health may be related to program-induced improvements in child health. These results provide novel evidence that programs designed to improve birth outcomes may generate unanticipated spillover effects on mental health.
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