Akee Randall, Copeland William, Costello E Jane, Simeonova Emilia
UCLA Department of Public Policy, 3250 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Center for Developmental Epidemiology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3454, Durham, NC 27710.
Am Econ Rev. 2018 Mar;108(3):775-827. doi: 10.1257/aer.20160133.
We examine the effects of a quasi-experimental unconditional household income transfer on child emotional and behavioral health and personality traits. Using longitudinal data, we find that there are large beneficial effects on children's emotional and behavioral health and personality traits during adolescence. We find evidence that these effects are most pronounced for children who start out with the lowest initial endowments. The income intervention also results in improvements in parental relationships which we interpret as a potential mechanism behind our findings.
我们研究了一项准实验性无条件家庭收入转移对儿童情绪和行为健康以及人格特质的影响。利用纵向数据，我们发现这对青少年时期儿童的情绪和行为健康以及人格特质有很大的有益影响。我们发现有证据表明，这些影响对于初始禀赋最低的儿童最为显著。收入干预还改善了亲子关系，我们将此视为我们研究结果背后的一个潜在机制。
