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Stefan Klonner
Stefan Klonner has been Professor of Development Economics at Heidelberg's South Asia Institute since 2010. He earned a Master's degree in Statistics and Econometrics from the University of Utah in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg in 2001. Previously, he has held positions as Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, Assistant Professor at Cornell University, and Professor of International and Development Economics at Goethe University, Frankfurt. His research focusses on microeconomic aspects of low-income economies – in particular, credit, insurance, health, poverty targeting, and impact evaluation of welfare programmes. His regional specialisation is South India, where he has carried out extensive data collection and field studies.
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/sai/wiw/team/klonner/klonner.html
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Evaluating India’s maternal cash transfer programmes
Over the years, India has implemented several programmes to overcome the issue of poor maternal and child health which can affect long-term physical and cognitive development. Using nationally representative data to study the impact of the current state maternity health benefits programme, this article shows that the programme has positive effects on infant health and immunisation rates and does not increase fertility rates unlike the previous programme. However, the results indicate that the programme’s effects are not sufficient to substantially improve health outcomes in children and mothers.
