The study was published in Nature on May 31st, 2023.
Key Points:
Cash transfer programs had the following observed effects:
Deaths among women fell by 20%
Largely driven by decreases in pregnancy-related deaths
Deaths among children less than 5 fell by 8%
No association between cash transfer programs and mortality among men
Temporal analyses suggest reduction in mortality among men over time, and specific subgroup analysis (rather than population wide) found a 14% morality reduction among men aged 18-40
37 low and middle income countries studied, population wide
4,325,484 in the adult dataset
2, 867,940 in the child dataset
No apparent differences between the effects of unconditional and conditional cash transfers
Factors that lead to larger reductions in mortality:
Programs with higher coverage and larger cash transfer amounts
Countries with higher regulatory quality ratings
Countries with lower health expenditures per capita
stronger association in sub-Saharan Africa relative to outside sub-Saharan Africa
Citation: Richterman, A., Millien, C., Bair, E.F. et al. The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06116-2
Large Study Examining the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Population-Level Mortality Rates
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The study was published in Nature on May 31st, 2023.
Key Points:
Cash transfer programs had the following observed effects:
Deaths among women fell by 20%
Largely driven by decreases in pregnancy-related deaths
Deaths among children less than 5 fell by 8%
No association between cash transfer programs and mortality among men
Temporal analyses suggest reduction in mortality among men over time, and specific subgroup analysis (rather than population wide) found a 14% morality reduction among men aged 18-40
37 low and middle income countries studied, population wide
4,325,484 in the adult dataset
2, 867,940 in the child dataset
No apparent differences between the effects of unconditional and conditional cash transfers
Factors that lead to larger reductions in mortality:
Programs with higher coverage and larger cash transfer amounts
Countries with higher regulatory quality ratings
Countries with lower health expenditures per capita
stronger association in sub-Saharan Africa relative to outside sub-Saharan Africa
Citation: Richterman, A., Millien, C., Bair, E.F. et al. The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06116-2