Kelly Kilburn

Biographic Data

ID272509
NAMEKelly Kilburn
GIVEN NAMESKelly
FAMILY NAMEKilburn
SIGNATUREKILBURN K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ORCID0000-0002-3069-3958
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS29
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Unconditional cash transfers and safe transitions to adulthood in Malawi

    Open AccessMonica Lambon-Quayefio, Amber Peterman et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2023Cited by: 3References: 6

    As national social safety nets are expanding in Africa and globally, evidence on the impact of programs on youth transitions can help guide future investment and program design decisions. This paper examines the effects of Malawi’s flagship cash transfer program on safe transitions to adulthood among youth living in households experiencing ultra-poverty. The evaluation was a cluster-randomized control trial implemented over three years using pane…

  • The Health Innovation Impact Checklist

    Open AccessMinahil Shahid, Amy Finnegan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    Donor financing is increasingly relying on performance-based measures that demonstrate impact. As new technologies and interventions enter the innovation space to address global health challenges, innovators often need to model their potential impact prior to obtaining solid effectiveness data. Diverse stakeholders rely on impact modeling data to make key funding and scaling decisions. With a lack of standardized methodology to model impact and v…

  • Modeling Cash Plus Other Psychosocial and Structural Interventions to Prevent HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa (HPTN 068)

    Open AccessMarie C D Stoner, Jessie K Edwards et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

    Poverty alleviation programs can reduce HIV incidence but may have greater impacts when combined with other psychosocial interventions. We modeled the change in HIV incidence among South African adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) associated with combining a cash transfer (the South African Child Support Grant (CSG)) with other structural and behavioral interventions. We modeled observational data from the HPTN 068 study where 2328 HIV negati…

  • The effects of a cash transfer intervention on sexual partnerships and HIV in the HPTN 068 study in South Africa

    Marie C D Stoner, Kelly Kilburn et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Evidence on cash transfer interventions for HIV prevention in adolescent girls and young women is unclear and indicates that they may not work uniformly in all settings. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 22 girls and young women post-intervention to determine how a cash transfer study (HPTN 068) in South Africa was perceived to influence sexual behaviours and to explore mechanisms for these changes. Participants described how the interve…

  • The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer on Multidimensional Deprivation of Young Women

    Open AccessKelly Kilburn, Lucia Ferrone et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2020Cited by: 8References: 62

    Despite the growing popularity of multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis, its use to measure the impact of social protection programs remains scarce. Using primary data collected for the evaluation of HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 068, a randomized, conditional cash transfer intervention for young girls in South Africa that ran from 2011 to 2015, we construct an individual-level measure of multidimensional poverty, a major depar…

  • Government of Malawi's unconditional cash transfer improves youth mental health

    Open AccessGustavo Angeles, Jacobus De Hoop et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Cited by: 12References: 15

    We explore the impacts of Malawi's national unconditional cash transfer program targeting ultra-poor households on youth mental health. Experimental findings show that the program significantly improved mental health outcomes. Among girls in particular, the program reduces indications of depression by about 15 percentage points. We investigate the contribution of different possible pathways to the overall program impact, including education, heal…

  • Cash Transfers, Young Women’s Economic Well-Being, and HIV Risk

    Open AccessKelly Kilburn, James P Hughes et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2018

  • Paying for Happiness

    Open AccessKelly Kilburn, Sara Handa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2018Cited by: 6References: 6

    This study analyzes the short-term impact of an exogenous, positive income shock on caregivers' subjective well-being (SWB) in Malawi using panel data from 3,365 households targeted to receive Malawi's Social Cash Transfer Program that provides unconditional cash to ultra-poor, labor-constrained households. The study consists of a cluster-randomized, longitudinal design. After the baseline survey, half of these village clusters were randomly sele…

  • Effects of a Large-Scale Unconditional Cash Transfer Program on Mental Health Outcomes of Young People in Kenya

    Open AccessKelly Kilburn, Harsha Thirumurthy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Health2016