Cash Transfer Programs for Child Health-Elucidating Pathways and Optimizing Program Design.
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DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.1181
Abstract: This Viewpoint describes how nondirected cash transfer programs influence the dynamics of child poverty, highlights pathways by which poverty reduction programs could improve child health, and provides suggested directions for future research and policy. read more here.
Keywords: child health; transfer programs; cash transfer;
Women’s Relationship Power Modifies the Effect of a Randomized Conditional Cash Transfer Intervention for Safer Sex in Tanzania
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DOI: 10.1007/s10461-017-1875-6
Abstract: This study tests whether women’s relationship power modifies the effect of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) on STI risk. We analyzed 988 women enrolled in the RESPECT study in Tanzania, a yearlong, randomized-controlled trial testing… read more here.
Keywords: effect; cash; cash transfer; relationship power ... See more keywords
Impacts of Cash Transfer Programs on Rural Livelihoods: a Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon Estuary
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DOI: 10.1007/s10745-017-9934-1
Abstract: We conducted a large household survey in a region of the Amazon estuary in Brazil to investigate the dependence of small farming households on government cash transfers and to identify the main factors that lead… read more here.
Keywords: dependence; cash; transfer programs; cash transfer ... See more keywords
Inequality and conditionality in cash transfers: Demographic transition and economic development
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2020.10.008
Abstract: Abstract This study examines the effects of conditionality in cash transfers on inequality to alleviate current poverty and reduce its intergenerational transmission. We consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, where poor households face… read more here.
Keywords: conditionality cash; cash; conditionality; inequality ... See more keywords
Evaluation of cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa: A methodological review.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.02.010
Abstract: Cash transfer programs (CTs) have been rigorously evaluated since their inception in the 1990s. However, to date, there has been no study critically examining the utility of the methodological approaches used to evaluate CTs. This… read more here.
Keywords: transfer programs; sub saharan; evaluation; cash transfer ... See more keywords
Healthcare at the Beginning of Life and Child Survival: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Experiment in Nigeria.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102426
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… read more here.
Keywords: evidence; transfer; child survival; cash transfer ... See more keywords
How does a national poverty programme influence sexual debut among Kenyan adolescents?
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DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1134617
Abstract: ABSTRACT Cash transfer programmes have recently emerged as promising interventions for HIV prevention among adolescents in Africa. However, the pathways through which risk reduction occurs are not well understood. We examine data on 1429 adolescents… read more here.
Keywords: sexual debut; debut; debut among; cash transfer ... See more keywords
The Brazilian cash transfer program (Bolsa Família): A tool for reducing inequalities and achieving social rights in Brazil.
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DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1850828
Abstract: Conditional cash transfer programs are strategies used by countries over the past two decades, and they play a key role in reducing income inequalities and expanding access to basic services such as health and education.… read more here.
Keywords: cash transfer; cash; transfer program; brazilian cash ... See more keywords
Beyond consensus: ideas and advocacy coalitions around cash transfer programs in Brazil and Mexico
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DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2017.1352529
Abstract: ABSTRACT How do new social policies emerge? The literature on developed countries has put forth important assumptions about changes in welfare policies, particularly building on the work of Esping-Andersen. However, discussion of social protection policies… read more here.
Keywords: programs brazil; cash transfer; advocacy coalitions; brazil mexico ... See more keywords
A causal mediation analysis for investigating the effect of a randomized cash transfer program in Nicaragua.
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DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac165
Abstract: Mediation analysis can be applied to data from randomized trials of health and social interventions to draw causal inference concerning their mechanisms. We used data from a cluster randomized trial in Nicaragua, fielded between 2000… read more here.
Keywords: mediation analysis; mediation; cash transfer; transfer program ... See more keywords
The Brazilian conditional cash transfer program and cardiovascular mortality: a data linkage study
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DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1418
Abstract: Conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) make monetary transfers to poor families conditional on health check-ups and/or education attendance. CCTs have been key in reducing poverty and improving child and maternal health in low- and middle-income… read more here.
Keywords: cardiovascular mortality; conditional cash; mortality data; mortality ... See more keywords