Maxton Tsoka

Biographic Data

ID2279847
NAMEMaxton Tsoka
GIVEN NAMESMaxton
FAMILY NAMETsoka
SIGNATURETSOKA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Malawi
ORCID0000-0001-9247-6337
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS52
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Exploring relationship pathways to prevent intimate partner violence among young women in Malawi

    Open AccessAudrey Pereira, Joseph J Chunga et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2026

    International estimates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among adolescents and young women are high, indicating the need to address IPV prevention early in life. Structural economic interventions, such as household cash transfer programmes, have the potential to improve the wellbeing of youth who are not the direct recipients of the transfers themselves. However, few studies have addressed this topic in terms of youth romantic and/or sexual rel…

  • The timing of the unconditional cash transfers and human capital accumulation

    Open AccessPaul Sirma, Sara Handa et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2025

    Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) are effective policy instruments to increase schooling outcomes, but are UCTs effective in the long term? This paper provides the first evidence on the long-term schooling impacts of a national cash transfer program in Africa. Specifically, we follow a panel of school-aged children in the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Program (SCTP) in three waves (2013-baseline, 2015-endline, and 2021-follow-up) and compare thei…

  • Political economy analysis of subnational health management in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda

    Open AccessDaniela C Rodríguez, L N Balaji et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2023

    The need to bolster primary health care (PHC) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for health is well recognized. In Eastern and Southern Africa, where governments have progressively decentralized health decision-making, health management is critical to PHC performance. While investments in health management capacity are important, so is improving the environment in which managers operate. Governance arrangements, management …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Impacts of the Malawi social cash transfer program on household food and nutrition security

    Open AccessKristen Nichole Brugh, Kristen Brugh et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2017Cited by: 6References: 1

  • Social networks, social participation, and health among youth living in extreme poverty in rural Malawi

    Open AccessAmelia Rock, Clare Barrington et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Cited by: 12References: 34

  • Interrupting the intergenerational cycle of poverty with the Malawi Social Cash Transfer

    Candace Miller, Maxton Tsoka et al.ARTICLEVulnerable Children and Youth…2010Cited by: 6References: 1

    Cash transfer programs throughout the world were designed within a Social Protection framework to alleviate poverty in the short term and to interrupt the long-term intergenerational cycle of poverty. In this study, we examine the potential of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS) to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of poverty in ultra-poor and labor-constrained households in Malawi. Using qualitative data from 16 focus groups with 1…

  • The impact of the Social Cash Transfer Scheme on food security in Malawi

    Open AccessCandace Miller, Candace M Miller et al.ARTICLEFood Policy2010Cited by: 19