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Which strings attached: ethical considerations for selecting appropriate conditionalities in conditional cash

Carleigh B Krubiner¹, Maria W Merritt^1,2

¹Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) can reduce poverty and improve health. Ethical CCT design requires evaluating conditionalities based on health outcomes, risks, receptivity, attainability, and indirect impacts, considering all beneficiaries.

Keywords:

Autonomy Behaviour Modification Distributive Justice Philosophical Ethics Public Health Ethics

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Area of Science:

Public Health Ethics
Social Justice Theory
Development Economics

Background:

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are interventions designed to alleviate poverty and improve health outcomes.
Ethical considerations for CCT design, particularly regarding conditionalities, require further development.
Existing frameworks offer limited guidance on evaluating the moral dimensions of CCT conditionalities.

Purpose of the Study:

To outline a comprehensive ethical framework for evaluating CCT conditionalities.
To provide guidance for CCT program designers on selecting morally sound and effective conditionalities.
To ensure CCTs promote health equity and long-term prosperity for disadvantaged populations.

Main Methods:

Drawing upon public health ethics frameworks and social justice theories.
Developing five categories of morally relevant considerations for CCT conditionalities: likelihood of health outcomes, risks/burdens, receptivity, attainability, and indirect impacts/externalities.
Emphasizing the importance of considering differential impacts on various beneficiary subgroups.

Main Results:

Identified five key ethical considerations for CCT conditionalities: health outcome likelihood, risks and burdens, receptivity, attainability, and indirect impacts.
Highlighted the need to assess how these considerations differentially affect diverse beneficiary populations.
Proposed a balanced approach to CCT design that integrates ethical reflection with effectiveness.

Conclusions:

The five proposed categories offer a comprehensive approach to the moral analysis of CCT conditionalities.
Ethical evaluation must consider distributional effects to ensure CCTs reduce inequities.
Morally sound and effective CCT design requires careful attention to the ethical implications of conditionalities for all beneficiaries.