How much is enough? Exploring the dose-response relationship between cash transfers and surgical utilization in a resource-poor setting

• Christopher Strader ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of General Surgery, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Joanna Ashby ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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• Dominique Vervoort,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3142-0388

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• Aref Ebrahimi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2023-1928

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• Shoghi Agbortoko,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Melissa Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Naomi Reiner,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Molly Zeme,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Mark G. Shrime

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shrime@gmail.com

  Affiliations Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Center for Global Surgery Evaluation, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, United States of America, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3546-9867

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