Ahmed, Akhter U.
[Verfasser:in]
;
Hoddinott, John
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Roy, Shalini
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Sraboni, Esha
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Transfers, Nutrition Programming, and Economic Well-Being
Anmerkungen:
In: IFPRI Discussion Paper 1879
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 24, 2019 erstellt
Beschreibung:
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