Does it Pay to Deliver? An Evaluation of India’s Safe Motherhood Program

Shareen Joshi and Anusuya Sivaram

World Development, 2014, vol. 64, issue C, 434-447

Abstract: The paper evaluates an Indian maternal conditional cash transfer scheme. Launched in 2005, the program gives women cash transfers for receiving maternal and child health care services. Data are drawn from India’s District Level Household Survey to evaluate the program’s impact. Results indicate that the program had a limited overall effect: relative to the broader population, the targeted population experienced a 3 percentage point increase in medically supervised births, but no increase in ante-natal or post-natal care. We do however, find evidence of heterogeneity of impact. Women without any formal education and women in rural areas experience disproportionate gains.

Keywords: health; antipoverty programs; welfare; India; South Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.06.004

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