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Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Household Welfare Impacts of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers Given to Mothers or Fathers / Richard Akresh.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Akresh, Richard.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers
- World Bank e-Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Labor Policies.
- Services & Transfers to Poor.
- Local Subjects:
- Education.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Labor Policies.
- Services & Transfers to Poor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (49 pages)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This study conducted a randomized control trial in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and were given to either mothers or fathers. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household socioeconomic conditions. For school enrollment and most child health outcomes, conditional cash transfers outperform unconditional cash transfers. Giving cash to mothers does not lead to significantly better child health or education outcomes, and there is evidence that money given to fathers improves young children's health, particularly during years of poor rainfall. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing.
- Other Format:
- Print Version: Cruz, Marcio. Organizing Knowledge to Compete : Impacts of Capacity Building Programs on Firm Organization.
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1596/1813-9450-7730
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