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Policy Brief: Impacts of Unconditional Cash TransfersWe are grateful to the study participants for generously giving their time; to Marie Collins, Faizan Diwan, Conor Hughes, Chaning Jang, Bena Mwongeli, Joseph Njoroge, Kenneth Okumu, James Vancel, and Matthew White for excellent research assistance; to Innovations for Poverty Action for implementation; to the team of GiveDirectly (Michael Faye, Raphael Gitau, Piali Mukhopadhyay, Paul Niehaus, Joy Sun, Carolina Toth, Rohit Wanchoo) for fruitful collaboration; to Petra Persson for suggesting and designing the intrahousehold bargaining and domestic violence module; and to Anna Aizer, Michael Anderson, Abhijit Banerjee, Chris Blattman, Kate Casey, Arun Chandrasekhar, Michael Clemens, Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Esther Duflo, Caroline Fry, Simon Galle, Rachel Glennerster, Ben Golub, Nina Harari, Nathan Hendren, Anil Jain, Anna Folke Larsen, Paul Niehaus, Ben Olken, Dina Pomeranz, Vincent Pons, Tristan Reed, Nick Ryan, Emma Rothschild, Simone Schaner, Xiao-Yu Wang, and seminar participants at Harvard and MIT for comments and discussion. All errors are our own. This research was supported by NIH Grant R01AG039297 and Cogito Foundation Grant R[removed]to Johannes Haushofer.
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