Maternal Cash Transfers for Gender Equity and Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India

We thank the Government of Jharkhand State Nutrition Mission for their support of this project, and are particularly grateful to Mukhmeet Bhatia, Dr. DK Saxena, and Ajay Verma. We thank Radu Ban, Abhijit Banerjee, Prashant Bharadwaj, Hoyt Bleakley, Joe Cummins, Ajinkya Keskar, Abhijeet Singh, Dean Spears, Tom Vogl, and numerous seminar and conference participants for helpful comments and suggestions. Hannah Blackburn, Thomas Brailey, Soala Ekine, Burak Eskici, Stefan Faridani, Simoni Jain, Pankhuri Jha, Wilson King, Prerna Kundu, Xinyi Liu, Frances Lu, Avantika Prabhakar, Sabareesh Ramachandran, Akanksha Saletore, Mayank Sharma, and Prashansa Srivastava provided excellent research assistance and field support. This study was registered with the AEA Trial Registry (RCT ID: 0002899). It was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of the University of California, San Diego and the Institute for Financial Management and Research, India. We thank the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Cash Transfers for Child Health Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab for funding this study. All views expressed are those of the authors and not any of the funders or institutions with which they are affiliated. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• randomized controlled trials registry entry

• January 24, 2024