Investments in children's health and the Kenyan cash transfer for orphans and vulnerable children: Evidence from an unconditional cash transfer scheme

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 943-955

  Huang, Carolyn ^a   Singh, Kavita ^b,c   Handa, Sudhanshu ^b,d   Halpern, Carolyn ^b,c   Pettifor, Audrey ^b,c   Thirumurthy, Harsha ^b,c  

^a United States Department of Labor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's health; Kenya; orphans; unconditional cash transfer; under 5s

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NEWBORN; ORPHANED CHILD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SOCIAL CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD, ORPHANED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALARIA; MALE; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 85034027731     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czw181     Document Type: Article

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