Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. This study reports on a randomized controlled trial used to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal...
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| author | Evans, David K. Kosec, Katrina |
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| description | Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. This study reports on a randomized controlled trial used to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. It provides evidence that the introduction of a CCT program increased program beneficiaries’ trust in other community members and their perceived ability to access support from other households (e.g., childcare). Although CCTs reduced the total size of transfers to beneficiary households in the community in the short run (after 1.75 years of transfers), that reduction had disappeared 2.75 years after transfers began. Taken together, this evidence suggests that formal CCT programs do not necessarily crowd out informal safety nets in the longer term, and they may in fact boost trust and support across households. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1316392024-11-07T09:42:20Z Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania Evans, David K. Kosec, Katrina cash transfers programmes social safety nets child care finance development accounting Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. This study reports on a randomized controlled trial used to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. It provides evidence that the introduction of a CCT program increased program beneficiaries’ trust in other community members and their perceived ability to access support from other households (e.g., childcare). Although CCTs reduced the total size of transfers to beneficiary households in the community in the short run (after 1.75 years of transfers), that reduction had disappeared 2.75 years after transfers began. Taken together, this evidence suggests that formal CCT programs do not necessarily crowd out informal safety nets in the longer term, and they may in fact boost trust and support across households. 2023-04-18 2023-08-24T16:23:12Z 2023-08-24T16:23:12Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131639 en Open Access Oxford University Press Evans, David K.; and Kosec, Katrina. Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania. World Bank Economic Review 37(2): 221–234. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac030 |
| spellingShingle | cash transfers programmes social safety nets child care finance development accounting Evans, David K. Kosec, Katrina Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania |
| title | Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania |
| title_full | Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania |
| title_short | Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania |
| title_sort | cash transfers trust and inter household transfers experimental evidence from tanzania |
| topic | cash transfers programmes social safety nets child care finance development accounting |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131639 |
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