Gennetian, Lisa A.; Duncan, Greg J.; Fox, Nathan A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-scale, multi-site randomized controlled study of monthly unconditional cash transfers starting at the time of a child's birth. We … find that the cash transfers increased spending on child-specific goods and mothers' early-learning activities with their … infants. The marginal propensity to consume child-focused items from the cash transfer exceeded that from other income …
