Money and my mind: Maternal cash transfers and mental health
| Autor: | Edward N. Okeke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Postpartum depression
Cash transfers medicine.medical_specialty Motivation Health Policy media_common.quotation_subject Mothers Context (language use) medicine.disease Payment Mental health Incentive Mental Health Pregnancy Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Cash medicine Humans Female Psychology Psychiatry Child media_common |
| Zdroj: | Health economics. 30(11) |
| ISSN: | 1099-1050 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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