Hundreds of billions a year. Spent without proof of what works.
Yet the proof exists. Scattered across tens of thousands of studies. No one has time to make sense of them all.
ImpactAI cuts through the noise. Only evidence you can rely on, backed by rigorous science.
Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Experimental Evidence from a Government Program
Premand and Barry (2022) · Journal of Development Economics · Niger
Cash Component of Conditional Cash Transfer Program is Associated with Higher Body Mass Index
Fernald, Gertler and Hou (2008) · Journal of Nutrition · Mexico
Do Cash Transfers Increase Nutritional Intakes? Experimental Evidence from an Unconditional Cash Transfer in Kenya
Aizawa (2020) · Health Policy and Planning · Kenya
Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Outcome of Treatment for Severe Acute Malnutrition
Grellety et al. (2017) · BMC Medicine · DR Congo
Evaluation of an Unconditional Cash Transfer Program Targeting Children's First 1,000 Days Linear Growth in Rural Togo
Briaux et al. (2020) · PLOS Medicine · Togo
A Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines Reduces Severe Stunting
Kandpal et al. (2016) · Journal of Nutrition · Philippines
Impacts of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program on Household Food and Nutrition Security
Brugh et al. (2018) · Food Policy · Malawi
The Effect of Eggs on Early Child Growth in Rural Malawi: The Mazira Project Randomized Controlled Trial
Stewart et al. (2019) · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · Malawi
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Cash transfers and child malnutrition
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