Financial Incentives, Targeting, and Utilization of Child Health Services: Experimental Evidence from Zambia
通过在赞比亚的实地实验，研究了小额财务激励对儿童常规体检利用的影响，发现激励能有效提高非农户家庭和离诊所较远家庭的体检率，但可能遗漏大量感染儿童。
To address untreated infections in children, routine health checkups have increasingly been incentivized as part of conditional cash transfer programs targeted at the poor. We conducted a field experiment in Zambia to assess the elasticity of demand for checkups as well as the associated health benefits. We find that relatively small incentives induce substantial increases in uptake among non-farming households and households living farther away from clinics, but not among households in the top wealth quintile. These results suggest that small financial incentives may be an efficient way to target poor populations. However, given the weak socioeconomic gradient in infections observed, small incentives will miss a substantial fraction of exposed children. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.