We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depends on the fulfillment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the programme. 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.
Authors
CPP Co-Director
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Research Fellow University College London
Marcos is a Research Fellow at IFS, an Affiliate at the Rural Education Action Program and a Professor of Economics at the University College London.
Veruska Oppedisano
Journal article details
- DOI
- 10.1257/app.20130126
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- JEL
- H23, I12, I18, I38, J13, J16, O15
- Issue
- April 2015
Suggested citation
O, Attanasio and V, Oppedisano and M, Vera-Hernandez. (2015). 'Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes' (2015)
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