eprintid: 28856
rev_number: 15
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datestamp: 2020-09-18 12:38:24
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type: workingPaper
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creators_name: von Haaren, Paula
creators_name: Klonner, Stefan
title: Maternal cash for better child health? The impacts of India’s IGMSY/PMMVY maternity benefit scheme
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: cash incentives, demand-side financing, child health, maternal health, India
abstract: The maternity benefit scheme introduced as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) in 2011 and renamed Pradhan Mantri Matriva Sahyog Yojana (PMMVY) in 2017, which incentivizes pregnant and lactating women to participate in various infant health-promoting activities, is India’s largest conditional cash transfer program thus far. We approach IGMSY’s geographically targeted pilot phase as a natural experiment and use data from a large national health survey to estimate its effects by a matched-pair differences-in-differences approach. Consistent with the program’s objectives we find positive, albeit small effects on infant immunization as well as long-term health care utilization. In addition, intervals between eligible births increase by 15 percent. Our findings suggest that PMMVY is moderately cost-effective, at least regarding immunization, but that it will make only a small contribution to redressing India’s dismal child-health record.
date: 2020-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00028856
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0689
ppn_swb: 1728974003
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-288560
language: eng
bibsort: VONHAARENPMATERNALCA202009
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0689
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 59
citation:   von Haaren, Paula ; Klonner, Stefan  (2020) Maternal cash for better child health? The impacts of India’s IGMSY/PMMVY maternity benefit scheme.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/28856/1/von_Haaren_Klonner_2020_dp689.pdf