Cash transfer programs have differential effects on health: A review of the literature from low and middle-income countries

Jan E. Cooper, Tarik Benmarhnia, Alissa Koski and Nicholas B. King

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 247, issue C

Abstract: Cash transfer programs have grown increasingly popular and are now used as interventions to target a wide array of health outcomes across many diverse settings. However, cash transfer experiments have yielded mixed results, highlighting gaps in our understanding of how these programs work. In particular, we do not yet know whether cash transfers are more effective for certain health outcomes compared to others, or are more effective for some population subgroups compared to others. Here, we ask whether the effects of cash transfers on health outcomes differ across study subgroups.

Keywords: Cash transfers; Incentives; Health; Low- and middle-income countries; Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112806

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