Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Interest has grown in leveraging cash transfer programs with nutrition interventions to improve child nutrition at scale. However, little is known about how doing so affects household economic well-being. We study a program providing cash or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior change...
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| author | Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini Sraboni, Esha |
| author_browse | Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini Sraboni, Esha |
| author_facet | Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini Sraboni, Esha |
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| description | Interest has grown in leveraging cash transfer programs with nutrition interventions to improve child nutrition at scale. However, little is known about how doing so affects household economic well-being. We study a program providing cash or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), to poor women in rural Bangladesh. We find that adding BCC to cash or food transfers leads to larger impacts on both consumption and assets - an apparent puzzle, given the transfer value is unchanged. Evidence suggests this occurs through the BCC inducing increases in income generation - plausibly by improving households’ social capital and empowerment. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1460092025-11-06T07:21:16Z Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini Sraboni, Esha social capital behavioural sciences social protection empowerment nutrition economics assets children livelihoods food security cash transfers behaviour communication Interest has grown in leveraging cash transfer programs with nutrition interventions to improve child nutrition at scale. However, little is known about how doing so affects household economic well-being. We study a program providing cash or food transfers, with or without nutrition behavior change communication (BCC), to poor women in rural Bangladesh. We find that adding BCC to cash or food transfers leads to larger impacts on both consumption and assets - an apparent puzzle, given the transfer value is unchanged. Evidence suggests this occurs through the BCC inducing increases in income generation - plausibly by improving households’ social capital and empowerment. 2019-10-24 2024-06-21T09:05:34Z 2024-06-21T09:05:34Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146009 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133420 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134221 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134946 https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00791 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004232 https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12498 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179866 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148633 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ahmed, Akhter; Hoddinott, John F.; Roy, Shalini; and Sraboni, Esha. 2019. Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1879. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146009 |
| spellingShingle | social capital behavioural sciences social protection empowerment nutrition economics assets children livelihoods food security cash transfers behaviour communication Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini Sraboni, Esha Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title | Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full | Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_short | Transfers, nutrition programming, and economic well-being: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_sort | transfers nutrition programming and economic well being experimental evidence from bangladesh |
| topic | social capital behavioural sciences social protection empowerment nutrition economics assets children livelihoods food security cash transfers behaviour communication |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146009 |
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