Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?

Does giving cash up front improve the health and wellbeing of people in poor communities? In this program, Edward (Ted) Miguel, professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley, talks about his work in Kenya on the impact of cash transfers on infant mortality, leveraging a unique large-scale census of local households’ birth histories. The findings provide novel evidence on the broader impacts of cash transfers on wellbeing of a poor rural population, and illustrate the value of the experimental approach in development economics for public policy. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 40309]

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Do Cash Transfers Save Lives? is an episode from UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures (Video) by UCTV.

This episode is 01:11:51 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2025.

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