This brief summarizes the income shocks and adolescent mental health in Malawi. Monthly transfers were made from 2008 to the end of 2009; in total the intervention lasted two years. The author investigates the effects of a positive income shock on mental health among adolescent girls using evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Malawi. Offers of cash transfers strongly reduced psychological distress among baseline schoolgirls. However, these...
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تفاصيل
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2013/8/14
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مذكرة موجزة
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81379
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2013/9/27
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Disclosed
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Income shocks and adolescent mental health
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Cash Transfer