Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations

Vandeninden, Frieda; Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne

doi:10.1080/19439342.2022.2047764

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Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations

Vandeninden, Frieda; Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne

2022 • In Journal of Development Effectiveness, 14 (3), p. 265-284

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Antenatal consultations; Conditional cash transfers; Evaluation; Maternal and child health; Senegal; Geography, Planning and Development; Development

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[en] This paper evaluates the effects of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) on antenatal consultations in Senegal. We conduct a non-experimental and a quasi-experimental evaluations, in which the control group is constructed using a propensity score matching method. While the non-experimental approach alone does not allow to conclude on the impact of the CCT, the quasi-experimental approach reveals that the CCT significatively increases antenatal consultations of beneficiaries. The combination of non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations has the potential to offer evaluation of social policies in a cost-effective way, using existing information, such as administrative data and already-collected survey data.

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Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)

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Vandeninden, Frieda ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales

Fecher-Bourgeois, Fabienne ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Faculté des Sciences sociales) > Vice-doyen à l'enseignement (Sciences sociales)

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English

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Do conditional cash transfers improve antenatal care outcomes in Senegal? Combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations

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2022

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Journal of Development Effectiveness

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1943-9342

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1943-9407

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Routledge

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265-284

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Peer reviewed

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