Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Attanasio, Orazio P.; Oppedisano, Veruska; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; National Bureau of Economic Research; London Metropolitan University; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20130126
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 35-52
• 关键词: transfer programs; child health; GROWTH; iron; supplementation; nutrition; diarrhea; IMPACT; school; zinc

摘要

We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfilment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that preventive visits of children born after the mother registered in the program are 50 percent lower because they are excluded from the conditionality requirement. Using the same variation, we also show that attendance to preventive care improves children health.