Cash transfers, maternal depression and emotional well-being
Quasi-experimental evidence from India's Janani Suraksha Yojana programme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4598159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Powell-Jackson (0000-0002-6082-3805, Faculty of Public Health, corresponding author), Shreya K Pereira, Shreya Pereira (Faculty of Public Health), Dutt (0000-0002-2151-8314, Sambodhi Research and Communications), Varun Dutt (0000-0002-4218-4907), Sarah Tougher (0000-0001-7990-4368, Faculty of Public Health), Kaveri Haldar (Sambodhi Research and Communications), Paresh Kumar (Sambodhi Research and Communications) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 162 |
| Pages | 210-218 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.06.034 |
| PMID | 27387651 |
| OpenAlex | W2468215868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 36 |
Maternal depression is an important public health concern. We investigated whether a national-scale initiative that provides cash transfers to women giving birth in government health facilities, the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), reduced maternal depression in India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh. Using primary data on 1695 women collected in early 2015, our quasi-experimental design exploited the fact that some women did not receive the JSY cash due to administrative problems in its disbursement - reasons that are unlikely to be correlated with determinants of maternal depression. We found that receipt of the cash was associated with an 8.5% reduction in the continuous measure of maternal depression and a 36% reduction in moderate depression. There was no evidence of an association with measures of emotional well-being, namely happiness and worry. The results suggest that the JSY had a clinically meaningful effect in reducing the burden of maternal depression, possibly by lessening the financial strain of delivery care. They contribute to the evidence that financial incentive schemes may have public health benefits beyond improving uptake of targeted health services
Business · Cash · Cash transfers · Depression (economics · Economics · Environmental health · Public health · Receipt · Global Maternal and Child Health · Health disparities and outcomes · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Finance
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