Effect of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Mobile Payments for Maternal Health: Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Samuel Knauss   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Gracia Andriamiadana   ³ , MSc ;   Roxane Leitheiser   ¹ , BSc ;   Zavaniarivo Rampanjato   ⁴ , MD ;   Till Bärnighausen   ^{2, 5, 6} , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Julius Valentin Emmrich   ^{1, 2} , MPhil, MD, PhD

¹ Global Digital Last Mile Health Research Lab, Charité Center for Global Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany

² Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Medical Faculty and University Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

³ Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

⁵ Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁶ Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, South Africa