EA - Large Study Examining the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Population-Level Mortality Rates by nshaff3r

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Large Study Examining the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Population-Level Mortality Rates, published by nshaff3r on June 3, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The study was published in Nature on May 31st, 2023.Key Points:Cash transfer programs had the following observed effects:Deaths among women fell by 20%Largely driven by decreases in pregnancy-related deathsDeaths among children less than 5 fell by 8%No association between cash transfer programs and mortality among menTemporal analyses suggest reduction in mortality among men over time, and specific subgroup analysis (rather than population wide) found a 14% morality reduction among men aged 18-4037 low and middle income countries studied, population wide4,325,484 in the adult dataset2, 867,940 in the child datasetNo apparent differences between the effects of unconditional and conditional cash transfersFactors that lead to larger reductions in mortality:Programs with higher coverage and larger cash transfer amountsCountries with higher regulatory quality ratingsCountries with lower health expenditures per capitastronger association in sub-Saharan Africa relative to outside sub-Saharan AfricaCitation: Richterman, A., Millien, C., Bair, E.F. et al. The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Nature (2023).Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org