Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58757 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6321
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and the money was given to either mothers or fathers. Families enrolled in the conditional cash transfer schemes were required to obtain quarterly child growth monitoring at local health clinics for all children under five years old. There was not such a requirement under the unconditional programs. Compared with control group households, conditional cash transfers significantly increase the number of preventative health care visits during the previous year, while unconditional cash transfers did not have such an impact. For the conditional cash transfers, money given to mothers or fathers showed beneficial impacts of similar magnitude in increasing routine visits.
Subjects: 
cash transfers
conditionality
gender
child health
Africa
JEL: 
I15
I38
J13
O15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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