Cash and behavioural interventions combinations in Kenya

May 21st 2021

To study how large unconditional cash transfers to a household (alongside a behavioural intervention) effect psychological, health, and economic outcomes and engagement in risky behaviours among adolescents within recipient households.

Partners:

GiveDirectly
Duke University
Mind and Behaviour Research Group
Centre for Study of African Economies
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Oxford
Innovations for Poverty Action
Kenyan Ministry for Social Protection

Team:

Dr Kate Orkin (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Yasmine Bekkouche (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Professor Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Professor Alain Stein (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Professor Rob Garlick (Duke University, United States)
Giulio Schinaia (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Winnie Mughogho (Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, Kenya)
Mungai Mwangi (Innovations for Poverty Action, Kenya)