[BUCH][B] Preventing youth violence: an overview of the evidence

World Health Organization - 2015 - apps.who.int
Each year an estimated 200 000 youth aged 10–29 years are murdered, making homicide
the fourth leading cause of death in young people globally. In addition to these deaths …

Systematic review on the impact of conditional cash transfers on child health service utilisation and child health in sub-Saharan Africa

C Onwuchekwa, K Verdonck, B Marchal - Frontiers in public health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are interventions which provide assistance
in the form of cash to specific vulnerable groups on the condition that they meet pre-defined …

[BUCH][B] Social assistance in develo** countries

A Barrientos - 2013 - books.google.com
The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the develo** world has
made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade …

Impacts 2 years after a scalable early childhood development intervention to increase psychosocial stimulation in the home: A follow-up of a cluster randomised …

A Andrew, O Attanasio, E Fitzsimons… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Poor early childhood development (ECD) in low-and middle-income countries
is a major concern. There are calls to universalise access to ECD interventions through …

[HTML][HTML] Cash component of conditional cash transfer program is associated with higher body mass index and blood pressure in adults

LCH Fernald, PJ Gertler, X Hou - The Journal of nutrition, 2008 - Elsevier
The cash component of Oportunidades, a large conditional cash transfer (CCT) program in
Mexico, has previously been shown to be associated with better outcomes for child growth …

Parental incentives and early childhood achievement: A field experiment in Chicago heights

RG Fryer, SD Levitt, JA List - 2015 - nber.org
This article describes a randomized field experiment in which parents were provided
financial incentives to engage in behaviors designed to increase early childhood cognitive …

Menstrual cups and cash transfer to reduce sexual and reproductive harm and school dropout in adolescent schoolgirls: study protocol of a cluster-randomised …

G Zulaika, D Kwaro, E Nyothach, D Wang… - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background Adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionally vulnerable to
sexual and reproductive health (SRH) harms. In western Kenya, where unprotected …

[HTML][HTML] Programa Bolsa Família: impacto das transferências sobre os gastos com alimentos em famílias rurais

GB Duarte, B Sampaio, Y Sampaio - Revista de economia e …, 2009 - SciELO Brasil
Programas de transferência condicionada de renda são políticas sociais correntemente
empregadas para combater e reduzir a pobreza em diversos países. No curto prazo, esses …

Cash transfers and health: evidence from Tanzania

DK Evans, B Holtemeyer, K Kosec - The World Bank Economic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
How do cash transfers conditioned on health clinic visits and school attendance impact
health-related outcomes? Examining the 2010 randomized introduction of a program in …

The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

W Moussa, N Salti, A Irani, R Al Mokdad… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the impact of multi-purpose cash assistance on Syrian refugee
children living in Lebanon. Using a sharp multidimensional regression discontinuity design …