Eva Vivalt
@evavivalt
Assistant prof @UofT, research on cash transfers and evidence-based decision-making.
We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 馃У

An unconditional cash transfer improved parenting quality and investments in children, but did not appear to improve children's outcomes in the short-term, from @pat_k_krause, @elizabethrds, @smilleralert, @alexbartik, @dbroockman, and @evavivalt nber.org/papers/w34040
1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids?