The Impact of Maternal Cash Transfers on Child Malnutrition in ...

Policy Issue ... Previous evidence suggests that providing poor households with cash transfers can have positive impacts on their children's health and ...

Cash transfer, maternal and child health outcomes: a scoping review ...

Cash Transfer (CT) programmes can improve maternal and child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. However, studies assessing the effectiveness ...

Impact evaluation of a maternal and child cash transfer intervention ...

A randomised controlled trial (RCT) of the SCTP found positive effects on household food consumption including increases in meal frequency, ...

On cash, nutrition, and child development - World Bank Blogs

They show that the program increased both the quantity of calories and the quality of diets of mothers and children. Still, there were no ...

The impact of the Mamata conditional cash transfer program on child ...

Cash can also improve child nutrition by increasing mothers' control over resources and ability to exercise preferences, reducing poverty- ...

The Health Impacts and Effective Delivery of Maternal Cash ...

Innovations for Poverty Action is working with researchers to measure the impact of maternal cash transfers and providing nutritional information on many ...

The impact of Conditional Cash Transfer program on stunting in ...

The results reveal that for the short time, CCT health conditionality does not result in reducing stunting in under-five children. However, given the longer ...

Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash ...

We experimentally evaluate the impact on child malnutrition of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar that was supplemented with Social Behavior Change ...

The role of information and cash transfers on early childhood ...

Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem ...

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Assessments of ...

Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 1000 mother-child dyads experiencing poverty, a monthly unconditional cash transfer did not ...

The impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and ...

2 Unlike development situations, where there is solid evidence on 'what works' in addressing maternal and child undernutrition, there is very little published ...

The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low - Nature

We found that cash transfer programmes were associated with significant reductions in mortality among children under five years of age and women.

comparison between different models of delivering maternal cash ...

With respect to the primary health objective of the program—child nutrition—we find that children whose mother received cash by government ...

Complementing cash with information to reduce malnutrition - VoxDev

Governments around the world have attempted to use cash transfers as a tool to enhance child health and development; however, evidence on the ...

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CASH TRANSFERS FOR CHILD ...

consumption and nutrition impacts of maternal income transfer programs, and are also informative about the likely effects of income growth in general.37. We ...

The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition

Beneficiaries are usually required to use maternal and child preventive health, nutrition, and care services and to enrol and maintain school-age children in ...

The impact of unconditional child cash grant on child malnutrition ...

Cash transfers have been found to increase the use of maternal and child health facilities [7, 8]. This could explain our finding related to the ...

More evidence on cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes

Evidence indicates that CTs can be effective, but overall impacts are small in magnitude. This paper substantially updates the evidence base on the ...

Maternal and Child Cash Transfer Randomized Control Trial ...

The MCCT aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children through the delivery of nutrition-sensitive cash transfers to pregnant women during the ...

The impact of cash and health insurance on child nutrition during the ...

CTs could also improve the care pathway, by decreasing poverty-related stress, improving mental wellbeing of the mother. In addition, cash might alleviate the ...