Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development: an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades.

By L. Fernald, Paul J. Gertler, L. Neufeld. The Lancet, 2008

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Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research (2010, background): “Until now, interventions have been targeted at changing SES directly by increasing family incom”
Selecting and Improving Quasi-Experimental Designs in Effectiveness and Implementation Research (2018, background): “Fernald et al 2008 Mexican Government randomly chose 320 early intervention and 186 late (approximately one year later) intervention communities in seven states for Oportunidades, which provided cash transfers to families conditional on children attending school and family members obtaining…”
Improving Education in Developing Countries (2016, background): “Fernald, Gertler, and Neufeld (2008) found that doubling the size of a cash transfer in Mexico in 1998 improved children’s cognitive development and receptive language.”
The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework (2009, background): “…for the endogeneity of the transfers received, that is, that the decision to send children to school (and thus receive additional cash) was most likely related to parental attitudes, which could also have had positive effects on the measured outcome (child nutritional status) (Fernald et al. 2008).”