Long Term Effects Of a Maternal Cash Transfer Experiment

This study will build on what the study investigators learned from the RCT and extend it in novel directions. Research assistants will return to the study communities approximately 5 years after enrollment in the RCT to collect data on utilization of maternal health care services for births to the trial participants after the intervention, and on long run child health outcomes including child weight and height. The research assistants will also collect data on the birth outcomes of non-incentivized childbearing women in the study clusters. Data will be collected through in-person surveys of study participants.

This study will provide valuable new evidence about the indirect and long run effects of demand-side incentives. This is of critical importance because accounting for only the direct effects may severely underestimate the full effect of the program.

Inclusion criteria

for Households:

• Resident in a community included in the RTC

Exclusion criteria

for Households:

• None

Inclusion criteria

for Women:

• Women must have participated in an earlier randomized trial of conditional incentives OR
• They did not take part in the earlier trial but are resident in clusters that participated in the earlier trial and have given birth since 2018

Exclusion criteria

for Women:

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