Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Child Health? Evidence from PROGRESA’s Control Randomized Experiment.

By Paul J. Gertler. The American Economic Review, 2004

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Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs (2005, positive): “Public access to the evaluation data has facilitated a number of valuable studies, indicating significant gains to health (Gertler, 2004), schooling (Schultz, 2004; Behrman, Sengupta and Todd, 2002) and food consumption (Hoddinott and Skoufias, 2004).”
Socioeconomic Status and Child Development (2013, background): “With few exceptions, studies examining programs to promote low-SES children’s development do not directly address the child’s SES by, for example, cash transfers (Gertler, 2004).”
Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient (2015, positive): “…programs serve to transfer funds to low-income individuals and have been shown to reduce poverty (Fiszbein and Schady 2009) and to improve educational outcomes (Schultz 2004; Glewwe and Olinto 2004; Maluccio and Flores 2005) and access to health services (Gertler 2000, 2004; Attanasio et al. 2005).”
Timing and Duration of Exposure in Evaluations of Social Programs (2008, positive): “Gertler (2004) also estimates how duration of exposure to health interventions in Mexico’s PROGRESA affected the probability of child illness, using two models—one assumes that program impact is independent of duration, and the other allows impact to vary according to the length of exposure.”
On regression adjustments in experiments with several treatments (2008, methodology): “(ix) Models are used to adjust data from large randomized controlled experiments in, for example, Cook et al. (2007), Gertler (2004) , Chattopadhyay Regression Adjustment 13”
The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework (2009, background): “Gertler compared intervention and control children who were 12 to 48 months of age after one year of programme exposure and showed that the probability of anaemia among intervention children was 18.4 percentage points lower than among children in the control group (Gertler 2004).”