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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-year Evidence From Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program / Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala, Sebastian Martinez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blattman, Christopher.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24999.
- NBER working paper series no. w24999
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants acted more as a kick-start than a lift out of poverty. Grantees' investment leveled off; controls eventually increased their incomes through business and casual labor; and so both groups converged in employment, earnings, and consumption. Grants had lasting impacts on assets, skilled work, and possibly child health, but had little effect on mortality, fertility, health or education.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2018.
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