This project evaluates the impact of Nigeria’s SURE-P Maternal and Child Health (MCH) conditional cash transfer program on women’s decision-making autonomy.
Do conditional cash transfers improve women's autonomy within households, beyond healthcare utilization?
- Nigeria DHS (2008, 2013, 2018)
- State-level treatment variation (SURE-P implementation states)
- Difference-in-Differences (DiD)
- State and year fixed effects
- Clustered standard errors at state level
- No significant causal effect of SURE-P on women's autonomy
- Autonomy improved nationally over time
- Education, wealth, and age are strong predictors of autonomy
/paper→ Final research paper/code→ Data cleaning and analysis scripts/data→ Raw and cleaned datasets (where permitted)/output→ Tables and figures
Airah Balogun
MSc International & Development Economics, University of San Francisco