Antenatal care and health in rural Africa : randomized program evaluation

• Project/Area Number: 21402018
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: TAKASAKI Yoshito 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (00334029)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥13,650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,150,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥7,670,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,770,000)
• Keywords: 開発経済学 / 健康 / 貧困 / 無作為実験 / 産前検診 / ナイジェリア / 国際研究者交流

Research Abstract

This study conducted randomized experiments on cash transfers conditional on antenatal care take-up and information about antenatal care among pregnant women in rural areas in northern Nigeria. Although conditional cash transfer caused a temporal increase in antenatal care take-up, information intervention decreased subsequent take-up. Although antenatal care take-up did not alter miscarriage/fetal death, choice of delivery places, health problems in delivery, babies' mortality/morbidity, or postnatal care take-up, it increased babies' vaccination and this was especially so for take-up in late stage.