Health spillover effects of a conditional cash transfer program

Diana Contreras Suarez and Pushkar Maitra

Journal of Population Economics, 2021, vol. 34, issue 3, No 5, 893-928

Abstract: Abstract We use data from the Familias en Acción program in Colombia to examine the spillover or indirect effects of a conditional cash transfer program. Our results show that the program has significant spillover effects: it leads to an improvement in the health of non-targeted individuals in treatment households in terms of both incidence and severity of illness. The benefits are stronger for women and the elderly in the short run and for men in the medium run. Our analysis suggests that these spillovers are driven by increased access to information in the household that creates a public good.

Keywords: Conditional cash transfer; Health spillovers; Colombia; Familias en Acción; Mechanisms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 I15 I38 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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