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Nigeria
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SMS Reminders Program
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Simple CEA
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Best guess25th percentile75th percentile25th percentile cost-effectiveness75th percentile cost-effectiveness
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Grant
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Grant size$100,000$100,000$100,000$100,000$100,000
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Under-five mortality benefits
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Cost per caregiver/child reached$2.92$1.50$3.502310
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Number of children reached34,247
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Proportion of reached children who would be vaccinated in the absence of the program65%54%76%158
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Estimated reduction in the number unvaccinated infants as a result of an SMS reminders program (%)15%5%25%419
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Number of additional children vaccinated as a result of the program1,836
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Probability that an unvaccinated child will die of vaccine-preventable causes before age 52.7%1.4%4.0%617
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Proportion of under-5 vaccine-preventable disease mortality averted by full vaccination52%38%68%817
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Number of deaths averted before age five26
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Initial cost-effectiveness estimate
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Cost per under-five death averted (prior to final adjustments)$3,835
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Moral weight of averting the death of a person under age five116
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Initial cost-effectiveness in terms of multiples of GiveDirectly's unconditional cash transfer program9.0
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Adjustments for other benefits (as % U5 benefits)
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Adjustment to account for mortalities averted after age 515%
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Adjustment to account for developmental benefits (long-term income increases)33%
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Percentage of program impact coming from different benefits (as % of modeled benefits)
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Mortalities averted before age five67%
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Mortalities averted after age five10%
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Developmental benefits (long-term income increases)22%
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Additional adjustments
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Adjustment for additional program benefits and downsides20%
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Adjustment for grantee-level factors-7%
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Adjustment for funging-9%
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Adjustment for leverage-12%
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Final cost-effectiveness estimate
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Final cost-effectiveness in terms of multiples of GiveDirectly's unconditional cash transfer program11.7
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Final cost per life saved$4,689
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