Was about to post this. Seems like a violation of Betteridge's law :D >Unconditional cash transfers (accounting for spillovers) lead to 48% fewer infant dea

Was about to post this. Seems like a violation of Betteridge's law :D >Unconditional cash transfers (accounting for spillovers) lead to 48% fewer infant deaths before age one and 45% fewer child deaths before age five. Heard about this via the NYT: A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/health/cash-transfer-kenya-poverty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/health/cash-transfer-keny... archive: https://archive.is/ct2o0 https://archive.is/ct2o0 They write: >Those are much bigger drops than have been credited to routine immunizations, for example, or bed nets to prevent malaria. >“This is easily the biggest impact on child survival that I’ve seen from an intervention that was designed to alleviate poverty,” said Harsha Thirumurthy, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the work.