Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations?
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Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers
We carry out a systematic review of studies on CCTs that report maternal and newborn health outcomes, including studies from eight countries. We find that CCTs have increased antenatal visits, skilled attendance at birth, delivery at a health facility, and tetanus toxoid vaccination for mothers, and reduced the incidence of low birth weight. The programs have not had a significant impact on fer...
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Devesh Kapur ([email protected]) is with the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, US; Partha Mukhopadhyay ([email protected]) is at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; Arvind Subramanian ([email protected]) is with the Perterson Institute for International Economics, the Centre for Global Development, and Johns Hopkins University, US. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Development and Cultural Change
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0013-0079,1539-2988
DOI: 10.1086/701829