Oh yeah that’s super interesting that the mortality effect doesn’t change the cost-effectiveness estimate that much. I wonder why that is excactly? Might look into it later!
Cash transfers are not targeted (i.e. lots of households receive transfers that don’t have young children) and are very expensive relative to other ways to avert child deaths ($1000 vs a few dollars for a bednet). The latter varies over more orders of magnitude than child mortality effects, so it dominates the calculation.
Interesting one nice observations. What do you mean when you say that the 23% mortality reduction has “extremely depressing implications”
I think he’s referring to the paragraph lower down which says
Oh yeah that’s super interesting that the mortality effect doesn’t change the cost-effectiveness estimate that much. I wonder why that is excactly? Might look into it later!
Cash transfers are not targeted (i.e. lots of households receive transfers that don’t have young children) and are very expensive relative to other ways to avert child deaths ($1000 vs a few dollars for a bednet). The latter varies over more orders of magnitude than child mortality effects, so it dominates the calculation.