Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh
The importance of children’s nutritional status for subsequent human capital formation, the limited evidence of the effectiveness of social protection interventions on child nutrition, and the absence of knowledge on the intra-household impacts of cash and food transfers or how they are shaped by co...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini |
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| description | The importance of children’s nutritional status for subsequent human capital formation, the limited evidence of the effectiveness of social protection interventions on child nutrition, and the absence of knowledge on the intra-household impacts of cash and food transfers or how they are shaped by complementary programming motivate this paper. We implemented two, linked randomized control trials in rural Bangladesh, with treatment arms including cash transfers, a food ration, or a mixed food and cash transfer, as well as treatments where cash and nutrition behavior change communication (BCC) or where food and nutrition BCC were provided. Only cash plus nutrition BCC had a significant impact on nutritional status, but its effect on height-for-age z scores (HAZ) was large, 0.25SD. We explore the mechanisms underlying this impact. Improved diets – including increased intake of animal source foods – along with reductions in illness in the cash plus BCC treatment arm are consistent with the improvement we observe in children’s HAZ. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1470372025-11-06T05:29:32Z Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini behavioural sciences social protection nutrition children cash transfers behaviour communication The importance of children’s nutritional status for subsequent human capital formation, the limited evidence of the effectiveness of social protection interventions on child nutrition, and the absence of knowledge on the intra-household impacts of cash and food transfers or how they are shaped by complementary programming motivate this paper. We implemented two, linked randomized control trials in rural Bangladesh, with treatment arms including cash transfers, a food ration, or a mixed food and cash transfer, as well as treatments where cash and nutrition behavior change communication (BCC) or where food and nutrition BCC were provided. Only cash plus nutrition BCC had a significant impact on nutritional status, but its effect on height-for-age z scores (HAZ) was large, 0.25SD. We explore the mechanisms underlying this impact. Improved diets – including increased intake of animal source foods – along with reductions in illness in the cash plus BCC treatment arm are consistent with the improvement we observe in children’s HAZ. 2019-09-26 2024-06-21T09:10:42Z 2024-06-21T09:10:42Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147037 en 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://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134221 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134946 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134479 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ahmed, Akhter; Hoddinott, John F.; and Roy, Shalini. 2019. Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1868. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147037 |
| spellingShingle | behavioural sciences social protection nutrition children cash transfers behaviour communication Ahmed, Akhter Hoddinott, John F. Roy, Shalini Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title | Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full | Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_short | Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh |
| title_sort | food transfers cash transfers behavior change communication and child nutrition evidence from bangladesh |
| topic | behavioural sciences social protection nutrition children cash transfers behaviour communication |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147037 |
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