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Table 2 Treatment effects on substance use and expenditures

From: Unconditional cash transfers and maternal substance use: findings from a randomized control trial of low-income mothers with infants in the U.S.

 

Maternal Substance Use Behavior

Family Substance Expenditure/Purchase per Week

 

Alcohol and Cigarette Use Index

Alcohol

Use

Cigarette

Use

Opioid

Use

Alcohol and Cigarette

(dollars)

Alcohol

(dollars)

Cigarettes

(dollars)

Cigarettes

(N packs)

A. Pre-pandemic Sample

  Low-cash gift group mean

(standard deviation)

1.112

(1.597)

0.475

(0.649)

0.635

(1.331)

0.076

(0.467)

12.435

(26.401)

3.412

(9.267)

8.976

(22.958)

1.288

(3.328)

  Cash-gift treatment effect

(standard error)

0.057

(0.118)

0.031

(0.055)

0.028

(0.096)

-0.031

(0.025)

0.050

(2.105)

1.174

(0.914)

-1.123

(1.737)

-0.144

(0.251)

  Effect size

0.036

0.047

0.021

-0.067

0.002

0.127

-0.049

-0.043

  p-value, unadjusted

0.628

0.580

0.769

0.211

0.981

0.199

0.518

0.566

  p-value, adjusted

0.826

0.826

0.826

0.552

0.980

0.395

0.69

0.713

  N

597

597

598

597

593

595

595

595

B. Full Sample

  Low-cash gift group mean

(standard deviation)

    

9.997

(22.542)

3.432

(9.297)

6.582

(19.224)

0.925

(2.632)

  Cash-gift treatment effect

(standard error)

    

0.394

(1.493)

0.668

(0.705)

-0.296

(1.204)

-0.039

(0.160)

  Effect size

    

0.017

0.072

-0.015

-0.015

  p-value, unadjusted

    

0.792

0.344

0.806

0.809

  p-value, adjusted

    

0.957

0.631

0.957

0.957

  N

    

920

922

927

927

  Preregistered hypothesis

YES

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

  1. Notes: Alcohol use, cigarette use, and opioid use are maternal self-report measures scored on a 0–4 point frequency ordinal scale (0: never in last year; 1: less than 1 time per month; 2: several times per month; 3: several times per week; 4: everyday). The Alcohol and Cigarette Use Index is a preregistered additive index of alcohol use and cigarette use, which ranges from 0–8. Adjusted p-values are Westfall and Young adjustments for multiple hypothesis testing. For the adjustment, substance use measures are placed into one family and expenditure measures are placed into one family. Effect size is the treatment effect divided by the standard deviation of low-cash gift group. + p < 0.10; * p < 0.05