ArticleJournal of development economics2020
Healthcare at the Beginning of Life and Child Survival: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment in Nigeria.
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Estimating the Returns to Provider Human Capital
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The impact of a randomized cash transfer intervention on mortality of adult household members in rural South Africa, 2011-2022.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Trial
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- Maternal Cash Transfers Led To Increases In Facility Deliveries And Improved Quality Of Delivery Care In Nigeria.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2020Trial
- Right-sizing Incentives.Journal of development economics · 2026Article
- Conditional cash incentives, community health workers, and continuum of maternal and child healthcare: evidence from India.Health policy and planning · 2026Article
- Making Bricks from Straw: Resources and Productivity in Health Care.The American economic review · 2026Article
- The effects of government-led cash transfer programmes on behavioural and health determinants of mortality: a difference-in-differences study.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- When a Doctor Falls from the Sky: The Impact of Easing Doctor Supply Constraints on Mortality.The American economic review · 2023Article
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- Economic evaluation of a conditional cash transfer to retain women in the continuum of care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period in Kenya.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Money and my mind: Maternal cash transfers and mental health.Health economics · 2021Article
- Conditional cash transfer program and child mortality: A cross-sectional analysis nested within the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort.PLoS medicine · 2021Article
- Social protection and the level and inequality of child mortality in 101 low- and middle-income countries: A statistical modelling analysis.Journal of global health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Households in poor countries are encouraged (and sometimes coerced) to increase investments in formal health care services during pregnancy and childbirth. Is this good policy? The answer to a large extent depends on its effects on child welfare. We study the effects of a cash transfer program in Nigeria in which households were offered a payment of $14 conditioned on uptake of health services. We show that the transfer led to a large increase in uptake and a substantial increase in child survival driven by a decrease in in-utero child deaths. We present evidence suggesting that the key driver is prenatal health investments.
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