ArticleReview of economics of the household2024
Unconditional Cash Transfers for Families with Children in the U.S.: A Scoping Review.
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- Poverty reduction and childhood opportunity moves: A randomized trial of cash transfers to low-income U.S. families with infants.Health & place · 2024Trial
- Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income.Nature human behaviour · 2024Trial
- Evaluability assessment of a targeted national anti-child poverty policy: option appraisal for evaluating the Scottish Child Payment.Health research policy and systems · 2026Article
- 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
- Effects of an Intervention on Black Family Incomes on Self-Rated Health and Obesity in Black and White Adolescents and Young Adults.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Unconditional cash transfers for preterm neonates: evidence, policy implications, and next steps for research.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2024Article
- Addressing Economic Drivers of Health in the Clinic: The Role and Potential of Medical-Financial Partnerships.The journal of applied research on children : informing policy for children at risk · 2023Article
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Abstract
Children represent the largest indirect beneficiaries of the U.S. social welfare system. Yet, many questions remain about the direct benefits of cash aid to children. The current understanding of the impacts of cash aid in the U.S. is drawn primarily from studies of in-kind benefits, tax credits, and conditional cash aid programs. A corresponding economics literature focuses on the role of income and the labor supply responses of parents, parenting skills, and early education as family investment mechanisms that reduce socioeconomic inequality in children's well-being. In contrast to the U.S., dozens of low- to middle-income nations use direct cash aid-conditional or unconditional-as a central policy strategy, with demonstrated positive effects across a host of economic and health measures and selected aspects of children's health and schooling. This paper reviews the economic research on U.S. safety net programs and cash aid to families with children and discusses what existing studies reveal about the impacts of cash aid on family investment mechanisms and children's outcomes. We specifically highlight gaps in understanding the impacts of unconditional cash aid on children. We then review nine contemporary unconditional cash transfer programs and discuss their promise and limitations in filling the U.S.-based economic evidence gap.
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