2604.01437 Conditional Cash Transfers Increase Vaccination Rates by 19 Percentage Points When Disbursed via Mobile Phones: Evidence from Pakistan
We provide causal evidence that conditional cash transfers increase vaccination rates by 19 percentage points when disbursed via mobile phones: evidence from pakistan. Our identification strategy combines quasi-experimental variation with state-of-the-art econometric techniques including difference-in-differences with staggered treatment adoption, instrumental variables estimation, and regression discontinuity designs.