Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

2022 UPDATE: Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect important as pects of pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trus...

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Main Authors: Evans, David, Kosec, Katrina
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Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140835
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description 2022 UPDATE: Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect important as pects of pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. We find 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, our 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. 2020 Abstract: Cash transfer programs enter communities with existing informal safety nets that function through inter-household transfers. Formal transfers may reduce inter-household transfers by reducing needs, or perceived needs, among the vulnerable households, or they may increase inter-household transfers by giving more liquidity to poor households to provide transfers in response to idiosyncratic shocks experienced by other households in the community. If inter-household transfers affect trust levels within the community, then introducing a cash transfer program could affect community trust. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of cash transfers on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. We find evidence that the introduction of a cash transfer program increased trust as well as certain types of assistance across households (e.g., childcare). Although cash transfers reduced transfers from non-beneficiary households in the community to beneficiary households in the short run (after 1.75 years of transfers), those effects had disappeared by an endline survey conducted 2.75 years after transfers began. Taken together, our evidence suggests that formal cash transfer programs do not necessarily crowd out informal safety nets, and they may in fact boost trust and support across households.
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spelling CGSpace1408352025-12-02T21:11:26Z Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania Do cash transfers reduce trust and informal transfers within communities? Evans, David Kosec, Katrina gender informal safety nets households social protection cash transfers social safety nets 2022 UPDATE: Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect important as pects of pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. We find 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, our 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. 2020 Abstract: Cash transfer programs enter communities with existing informal safety nets that function through inter-household transfers. Formal transfers may reduce inter-household transfers by reducing needs, or perceived needs, among the vulnerable households, or they may increase inter-household transfers by giving more liquidity to poor households to provide transfers in response to idiosyncratic shocks experienced by other households in the community. If inter-household transfers affect trust levels within the community, then introducing a cash transfer program could affect community trust. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of cash transfers on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. We find evidence that the introduction of a cash transfer program increased trust as well as certain types of assistance across households (e.g., childcare). Although cash transfers reduced transfers from non-beneficiary households in the community to beneficiary households in the short run (after 1.75 years of transfers), those effects had disappeared by an endline survey conducted 2.75 years after transfers began. Taken together, our evidence suggests that formal cash transfer programs do not necessarily crowd out informal safety nets, and they may in fact boost trust and support across households. 2022-11-10 2024-04-12T13:36:43Z 2024-04-12T13:36:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140835 en https://www.cgdev.org/publication/cash-transfers-trust-and-inter-household-transfers-experimental-evidence-tanzania https://www.cgdev.org/blog/can-conditional-cash-transfers-boost-trust-within-communities-tanzania-they-did Open Access application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Evans, David; and Kosec, Katrina. 2022. Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1994. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140835
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informal safety nets
households
social protection
cash transfers
social safety nets
Evans, David
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 gender
informal safety nets
households
social protection
cash transfers
social safety nets
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140835
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