Cash transfer

Intervention

1 paper1 finding

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Human trial1

Outcomes

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Cognitive function

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Cash transfer improves cognitive function in humans (b=0.07, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.13).

    “Participants in households randomized to the early‐entry treatment group had higher neurocognitive test scores as compared with delayed‐entry‐household controls (for a composite cognitive z‐score across tests, b=0.07, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.13).”

    Human trialearly entry vs delayed entrybimonthly cash disbursementsscaled by household size, ~20% of pre-program consumption2013 to 202190% womensn = 3,030

    A Randomized Study of a Government Cash Supplement on Cognitive Function among Adults in Malawi

    AAIC 2025 abstract23 Dec 2025

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