Replication Data for: Attanasio OP, Oppedisano V, and Vera-Hernández M. (2015). Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 7(2), 35–52.

A 2015 analysis by Attanasio, et al. examines the effect of a conditionality requirement for a preventive care cash transfer program on preventive care visits for children born to mothers before and after the requirement. The authors conclude that children excluded from the conditionality requirement had 50% fewer preventive care visits. We question the validity of the model specification employed by the authors, due to the heteroscedasticity and excess zeroes of the dependent variable. We fit alternative model specifications that have improved goodness of fit for a count variable. We show that there may be no effect of the conditionality requirement on influencing preventive care behaviors.