We assess the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural households in Peru, on the utilization of prenatal health care by women exposed to the program during their most recent pregnancy. We implement a difference-in-differences estimation technique to uncover the effects of JUNTOS on the utilization of prenatal health care, the quality of prenatal health care, utilization of health care at birth, and obstetric complications at birth. We use data from the publicly available Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from the period 2000-2014. Our results suggest that the program has increased prenatal health care utilization. Even more salient, our results also suggest an improvement in the quality of health car...
The use of low-quality informal health-care providers (IHCPs) is still prominent in developing count...
IMPORTANCE: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been consistently associated with improvements to...
Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare provi...
We assess the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural househol...
Se evaluaron los efectos de JUNTOS, un programa de transferencias monetarias condicionadas dirigido ...
There is growing evidence on positive human capital impacts of large, poverty‐focused cash transfer ...
BACKGROUND: Reducing poverty and improving access to health care are two of the most effective actio...
Maternal and newborn health (MNH) is a high priority for global health and is included among the Mil...
BACKGROUND: Lack of nutrition, inadequate housing, low education and limited access to quality care ...
Objective. To examine the effect of prenatal care (PNC) on the level and distribution of child stunt...
Oportunidades (formerly PROGRESA) is a conditional cash transfer program ran by the Mexican federal ...
Objective: Antenatal care (ANC) is crucial to protecting the health of pregnant women and their unbo...
Background: Poverty constitutes a barrier to poor women in accessing healthcare services in most dev...
The objective of this project was to document the structure and functioning of conditional cash tran...
Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare provi...
The use of low-quality informal health-care providers (IHCPs) is still prominent in developing count...
IMPORTANCE: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been consistently associated with improvements to...
Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare provi...
We assess the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural househol...
Se evaluaron los efectos de JUNTOS, un programa de transferencias monetarias condicionadas dirigido ...
There is growing evidence on positive human capital impacts of large, poverty‐focused cash transfer ...
BACKGROUND: Reducing poverty and improving access to health care are two of the most effective actio...
Maternal and newborn health (MNH) is a high priority for global health and is included among the Mil...
BACKGROUND: Lack of nutrition, inadequate housing, low education and limited access to quality care ...
Objective. To examine the effect of prenatal care (PNC) on the level and distribution of child stunt...
Oportunidades (formerly PROGRESA) is a conditional cash transfer program ran by the Mexican federal ...
Objective: Antenatal care (ANC) is crucial to protecting the health of pregnant women and their unbo...
Background: Poverty constitutes a barrier to poor women in accessing healthcare services in most dev...
The objective of this project was to document the structure and functioning of conditional cash tran...
Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare provi...
The use of low-quality informal health-care providers (IHCPs) is still prominent in developing count...
IMPORTANCE: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been consistently associated with improvements to...
Empirical literature analyzing the effect of pay-for-performance programs (P4P) for healthcare provi...