ArticleJournal of public economics2024
Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Employment: Evidence from the Baby's First Years Study.
Article in Journal of public economics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Household Income and Child Development in the First Three Years of Life (Phase 1) Household Income and Child Development in the First Years of Life (Phase 2)
Advancing Health Equity Via Basic Income + Early Childhood Systems Integration: An RCT of the Baby Bonus Program
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations Between Unconditional Cash Transfers and Postpartum Outcomes in the United States : A Systematic Review.Annals of internal medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of a monthly unconditional cash transfer starting at birth on family investments among US families with low income.Nature human behaviour · 2024Trial
- Effects of a randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers on epigenetic measures of ageing and cognition in children and mothers.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- "Not an option": How Mothers with Limited Incomes View Barriers to Child Care Use for Infants and Toddlers.Children and youth services review · 2026Article
- Unconditional Cash and Breastfeeding, Child Care, and Maternal Employment among Families with Young Children Residing in Poverty.The Social service review · 2024Article
- Child Allowances and Work-Family Reconciliation Policies: What Best Reduces Child Poverty and Gender Inequality While Enabling Desired Fertility?Population research and policy review · 2023Article
- Environment and child well-being: A scoping review of reviews to guide policies.Health promotion perspectives · 2023Article
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Abstract
How the labor force participation of mothers of young children responds to unconditioned cash support remains an open question in policy debates. Using data from Baby's First Years, a large-scale randomized controlled study, we generate new estimates of the impact of an unconditional monthly cash transfer on maternal employment behavior through a child's first four years of life. We find no overall statistically detectable differences in whether mothers participated in the paid workforce or on total household earnings. Receipt of the cash transfer appears to have reduced hours of maternal work during the height of the pandemic in 2020-21.
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