When conditions matter: Unconditional cash transfers and infant mortality Berk Özler August 20, 2025 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/when-conditions-matter--unconditional-cash-transfers-and-infant- When we talk about conditional cash transfers, or CCTs, we’re referring to the first definition: eligible individuals must abide by some prespecified conditions before they can receive the cash transfers. But we can also talk about conditions without which an intervention (say, unconditional cash transfers, or UCTs) won’t affect an outcome (e.g., infant mortality). That refers to the second meaning… People also refer to the latter as mediators and, of course, you can condition interventions on mediators if you think that it will make your policy more cost-effective, more palatable to the public, etc.