Financial Incentives, Targeting, and Utilization of Child Health Services: Experimental Evidence from Zambia.

摘要: To address untreated infections in children, routine health checkups have increasingly been incentivized as part of conditional cash transfer programs targeted at the poor. We conducted a field experiment Zambia to assess elasticity demand for well associated benefits. find that relatively small incentives induce substantial increases uptake among non-farming households and living farther away from clinics, but not top wealth quintile. These results suggest financial may be an efficient way target poor populations. However, given weak socioeconomic gradient observed, will miss fraction exposed children. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.