Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA′s Control Randomized Experiment
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Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA's Control Randomized Experiment by Paul Gertler. Published in volume 94, issue 2, pages 336-341 of American Economic Review, May 2004
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Randomized trials of conditional cash transfers, including the original Progresa launch, showed substantial improvements on conditioned indicators initially and over the medium term.
“A number of randomized trials of these programs, including the original launch of Progresa, showed that these programs led to substantial improvements on the conditioned indicators, both initially (for example, see Behrman and Todd 1999;Gertler 2004) and over the medium term (Behrman, Parker, and Todd 2011; Barham, Macours, and Maluccio 2017; Kugler and Rojas 2018; Cahyadi, Hanna, Olken, Prima, S”
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- Authors
- Gertler, P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Gertler, Paul
- ORCID
- Gertler, Paul
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2004-04-01
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 336-341
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2084509705
- Cited by
- 703
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 42.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Keywords
- conditional cash transfers, child health, PROGRESA, school attendance, child nutrition, poverty reduction
- MeSH terms
- Child Health, Anemia, Body Height, Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Child, Preschool, Female, Financing, Government, Health Promotion, Humans, Hygiene, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Mexico, Morbidity, Poverty, Pregnancy, Prenatal Care, Socioeconomic Factors
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