Working papers

Cash or Care? The effectiveness and costs of unconditional cash transfers, a parenting intervention, and their combination in Tanzania: a multi-arm cluster randomised controlled trial

Ingvild Almås, Orazio Attanasio, Theresa S. Betancourt, Marc H. Bornstein, Bet H. Caeyers, Ester Elisaria, Tillmann Eymess, Pamela Jervis, Honorati Masanja, Costas Meghir, Pallavi Prabhakar, Charlotte Ringdal, and Bianca Yue · Manuscript in preparation

Two-year implementation trajectory of a large-scale digital-app-supported parenting intervention embedded in the community health system in Tanzania: A mixed-method process evaluation

Bet Caeyers, Theresa S. Betancourt, Ester Elisaria, Kate Gooding, Pamela Jervis, Honorati Masanja, Macklina Mhagama, Deogardius Medardi, Pallavi Prabhakar, Laura Van Der Erve, and Ingvild Almås · Manuscript in preparation

Father engagement and support to mothers: the policy elasticity of child-related spending

Ingvild Almås, Bet Caeyers, Tillmann Eymess, Pamela Jervis, and Charlotte Ringdal · December 2025

Targeting meets constraints: cash transfers, digital access and women's empowerment

Ingvild Almås, Bet Caeyers, and Pallavi Prabhakar · December 2025

Reports

Kizazi Kijacho: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Parenting and Unconditional Cash Transfers in Tanzania

Baseline Report

Ingvild Almås, Bet Caeyers, Charlotte Ringdal, Ester Elisaria, Honorati Masanja, Orazio Attanasio, Ezeriki Emetonjor, Costas Meghir, Pallavi Prabhakar, Pamela Jervis, Theresa S. Betancourt, and Marc Bornstein · 31 December 2023

Kizazi Kijacho: qualitative findings on the implementation, outcomes and sustainability of a community-based parenting intervention

Kate Gooding, Macklina Mhagama, Deogardius Medardi and Bet Caeyers · June 2026

Costing parenting and cash transfer interventions in an early childhood development pilot programme in Tanzania

Georgina Rawle and Sadashiv Nayanpally · 2026

Policy briefs

Empowering Tanzania's next generation for economic growth and inclusion

Ingvild Almås, Bet Caeyers, Ester Elisaria and Erika Williams · February 2024

Sustainable parenting and cash transfer programmes in Tanzania - emerging evidence

Bet Caeyers, Ester Elisaria, Kate Gooding and Deogardius Medardi · October 2026

Other outputs

How do mothers and fathers choose to share resources with their children, and do cash transfers change that?

Blog post

Tillmann Eymess · 26 October 2026 · on Thrive

Adapting parenting interventions for sustainability in different contexts: balancing feasibility and impact

Blog post

15 October 2026 · on Thrive

Kizazi Kijacho – interview on emerging findings

Interview

Bet Caeyers · 14 October 2026 · on Thrive