The effects of government-led cash transfer programmes on behavioural and health determinants of mortality: a difference-in-differences study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poverty is strongly associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. Government-led cash transfer programmes are crucial to poverty reduction strategies in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although extensive research from individual programmes exists on the effects of cash transfers on beneficiaries, evidence of these programmes' population-wide health effects remains scarce. Previously, we showed that cash transfer programmes are associated with substantially reduced mortality rates among women and young children at the population level in LMICs. In this study, we aimed to explore the mechanisms underlying these reductions.

Methods

In this two-stage difference-in-differences study, we combined individual-level data from Demographic and Health

SUBMITTER: Richterman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12626383 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature