The effect of cash transfers on mental health – new evidence from South Africa
Julius Ohrnberger e outros, 2020 · BMC Public Health
Receipt of South Africa's Child Support Grant improved adult mental health by 0.822 points on the inverted 0–30 CES-D depression scale.
Estimativa · CES-D score (0-30 scale, higher = better mental health)
0,822 [0,275; 1,37]
points on 0-30 CES-D scale · calculado a partir do erro-padrão
p < 0.01
- Desenho
- Variáveis instrumentais. Instrumental variables fixed effects (FE 2SLS) using child age-eligibility as instrument
- População
- Adults aged 15 and older in poor households, South Africa, 2008–2014
- Amostra
- 28.773 · person-wave observations across 10,925 individuals
Onde está o número
Table 4, column (4), row 'Household CSG'
Household CSG | 0.614*** | 0.749*** | 0.621*** | 0.822*** | 0.468 | 1.000*** | (0.125) | (0.152) | (0.231) | (0.279)
Contexto
What changed: Poor households received South Africa's Child Support Grant, an unconditional monthly cash transfer increasing household income by roughly 20–25%. Comparison: Adults in non-receiving poor households, instrumented by household child age-eligibility with individual fixed effects. Limits: Identification assumes child age-eligibility influences adult depressive symptoms exclusively through grant receipt; mental health is self-reported.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoTransferências de renda
- EixoSaúde
MAGI só cita evidência deste instrumento
Lugares do estudo
- South Africa · País · ZA
- Licença
- CC0
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23