Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia
A growing literature in economics has analyzed the effects of psychological interventions designed to boost individual aspirations as a strategy to increase investments with long-term returns and thus reduce poverty. This paper reports on a randomized controlled trial evaluating a short video-based...
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| author | Leight, Jessica Gilligan, Daniel O. Mulford, Michael Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum Tambet, Heleene |
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| description | A growing literature in economics has analyzed the effects of psychological interventions designed to boost individual aspirations as a strategy to increase investments with long-term returns and thus reduce poverty. This paper reports on a randomized controlled trial evaluating a short video-based intervention designed to increase aspirations of adults in poor rural Ethiopian households, all of whom are beneficiaries of the Productive Safety Net Program, the main government safety net program in Ethiopia. Evidence from a sample of 5258 adults from 3220 households is consistent with the hypothesis that there is no evidence that the aspirations treatment had any significant effects on self-reported aspirations for the household, educational investment in children, or savings nine months post-treatment, suggesting that the effect of light-touch aspirations treatments for extremely poor adults may be limited in this context. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434582025-12-02T21:02:52Z Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia Leight, Jessica Gilligan, Daniel O. Mulford, Michael Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum Tambet, Heleene education investment poverty alleviation capacity development aspirations social safety nets rural areas A growing literature in economics has analyzed the effects of psychological interventions designed to boost individual aspirations as a strategy to increase investments with long-term returns and thus reduce poverty. This paper reports on a randomized controlled trial evaluating a short video-based intervention designed to increase aspirations of adults in poor rural Ethiopian households, all of whom are beneficiaries of the Productive Safety Net Program, the main government safety net program in Ethiopia. Evidence from a sample of 5258 adults from 3220 households is consistent with the hypothesis that there is no evidence that the aspirations treatment had any significant effects on self-reported aspirations for the household, educational investment in children, or savings nine months post-treatment, suggesting that the effect of light-touch aspirations treatments for extremely poor adults may be limited in this context. 2021-12-08 2024-05-22T12:14:17Z 2024-05-22T12:14:17Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143458 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143737 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147203 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143065 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133942 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133748 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133656 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134901 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134961 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Leight, Jessica; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Mulford, Michael; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum; and Tambet, Heleene. 2021. Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2070. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134858. |
| spellingShingle | education investment poverty alleviation capacity development aspirations social safety nets rural areas Leight, Jessica Gilligan, Daniel O. Mulford, Michael Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum Tambet, Heleene Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia |
| title | Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia |
| title_full | Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia |
| title_short | Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of a light-touch aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia |
| title_sort | aspiring to more new evidence on the effect of a light touch aspirations intervention in rural ethiopia |
| topic | education investment poverty alleviation capacity development aspirations social safety nets rural areas |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143458 |
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