David Seidenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 1632588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Seidenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Seidenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | SEIDENFELD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Institutes for Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Etiology of sexually transmitted infections among people living with HIV (PLWHIV) within meme division in Cameroon
Introduction Sexually transmitted infections are of great public health importance. The screening of these infections not being part of the routine healthcare package for PLWHIV means most of the infected individuals who are asymptomatic end up being undetected. This study aims to determine the seroprevalence of syphilis, chlamydia, and HBV among PLWHIV in Meme division. Additionally, it aimed to assess the factors associated with STI transmissio…
A cash plus program reduces youth exposure to physical violence in Zimbabwe
Violence against children and adolescents, a highly prevalent problem, is a clear violation of child rights and has detrimental effects on later life outcomes. Programs that alleviate poverty address a structural determinant of child vulnerability and can thereby reduce child abuse. This paper investigates whether the Government of Zimbabwe's Harmonized Social Cash Transfer (HSCT) Program, which combines cash transfers with complementary services…
The Impact of a Large-Scale Poverty-Targeted Cash Transfer Program on Intertemporal Choice
We use a social experiment to test whether the government of Zambia’s cash transfer program affects intertemporal choice. A cash transfer program may also alter expectations about future quality of life and make one happier, two conditions that can affect intertemporal decision-making and the desire to invest in the future. We find that the program affects time discounting and that psychological states are also strongly associated with time disco…
Cash Transfers Enable Households to Cope with Agricultural Production and Price Shocks
Climate change is projected to dramatically disrupt rainfall patterns and agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa. These shocks to food production can mire farming households in poverty traps. This study investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can help households cope with agricultural production and price shocks. We find that cash empowers poor, rural households facing these negative shocks to employ coping strategies typically used …
No Lost Generation
This study documents the impact of a cash transfer programme – known as the No Lost Generation Programme (NLG) and locally as Min Ila (‘from to’) – on the school participation of displaced Syrian children in Lebanon. An initiative of the government of Lebanon, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Food Programme (WFP), the programme provided cash for the benefit of children enrolled in afternoon shifts at public primary schoo…
Does money buy happiness? Evidence from an unconditional cash transfer in Zambia
The relationship between happiness and income has been at the center of a vibrant debate, with both intrinsic and instrumental importance, as emotional states are an important determinant of health and social behavior. We investigate whether a government-run unconditional cash transfer paid directly to women in poor households had an impact on self-reported happiness. The evaluation was designed as a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Z…
Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia
In Africa, state-sponsored cash transfer programs now reach nearly 50 million people. Do these programs raise long-term living standards? We examine this question using experimental data from two unconditional cash transfer programs implemented by the Zambian Government. We find far-reaching effects of the programs both on food security and consumption as well as on a range of productive outcomes. After three years, household spending is on avera…
The effect of cash transfers and household vulnerability on food security in Zimbabwe
Cash for Women’s Empowerment? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Government of Zambia’s Child Grant Program
The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of social cash transfer programs in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of cash transfers to empower women, the evidence supporting this outcome is mixed. In addition, there is little evidence from programs at scale in sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation of the Government of Zambia's Child Grant Program, a poverty-targete…
Unconditional government social cash transfer in Africa does not increase fertility
The Social and Productive Impacts of Zambia's Child Grant
Accumulated evidence from dozens of cash transfer programs across the world suggest that there are few interventions that can match the range of impacts and cost-effectiveness of a small, predictable monetary transfer to poor families in developing countries. However, individual published impact assessments typically focus on only one program and one outcome. This article presents two-year impacts of the Zambian Government's Child Grant, an uncon…
An Intervention to Increase the Condom Supply in Rural Zambia
More than US$800 million per year is spent on programs in low‐ and middle‐income countries to increase demand for condoms, yet in rural areas of Africa condoms are often distributed for free only by regional health clinics that may be located far from home. Anecdotal evidence suggests that limited supply, resulting primarily from long travel times to acquire condoms, is a major barrier to use. This study investigates the potential unmet demand fo…
Cash for Women’s Empowerment? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Government of Zambia’s Child Grant Program
The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of social cash transfer programs in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of cash transfers to empower women, the evidence supporting this outcome is mixed. In addition, there is little evidence from programs at scale in sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation of the Government of Zambia's Child Grant Program, a poverty-targete…
Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia
In Africa, state-sponsored cash transfer programs now reach nearly 50 million people. Do these programs raise long-term living standards? We examine this question using experimental data from two unconditional cash transfer programs implemented by the Zambian Government. We find far-reaching effects of the programs both on food security and consumption as well as on a range of productive outcomes. After three years, household spending is on avera…
The Social and Productive Impacts of Zambia's Child Grant
Accumulated evidence from dozens of cash transfer programs across the world suggest that there are few interventions that can match the range of impacts and cost-effectiveness of a small, predictable monetary transfer to poor families in developing countries. However, individual published impact assessments typically focus on only one program and one outcome. This article presents two-year impacts of the Zambian Government's Child Grant, an uncon…
The effect of cash transfers and household vulnerability on food security in Zimbabwe
A cash plus program reduces youth exposure to physical violence in Zimbabwe
Violence against children and adolescents, a highly prevalent problem, is a clear violation of child rights and has detrimental effects on later life outcomes. Programs that alleviate poverty address a structural determinant of child vulnerability and can thereby reduce child abuse. This paper investigates whether the Government of Zimbabwe's Harmonized Social Cash Transfer (HSCT) Program, which combines cash transfers with complementary services…
Unconditional government social cash transfer in Africa does not increase fertility
The Impact of a Large-Scale Poverty-Targeted Cash Transfer Program on Intertemporal Choice
We use a social experiment to test whether the government of Zambia’s cash transfer program affects intertemporal choice. A cash transfer program may also alter expectations about future quality of life and make one happier, two conditions that can affect intertemporal decision-making and the desire to invest in the future. We find that the program affects time discounting and that psychological states are also strongly associated with time disco…
An Intervention to Increase the Condom Supply in Rural Zambia
More than US$800 million per year is spent on programs in low‐ and middle‐income countries to increase demand for condoms, yet in rural areas of Africa condoms are often distributed for free only by regional health clinics that may be located far from home. Anecdotal evidence suggests that limited supply, resulting primarily from long travel times to acquire condoms, is a major barrier to use. This study investigates the potential unmet demand fo…
The Social and Productive Impacts of Zambia's Child Grant
Accumulated evidence from dozens of cash transfer programs across the world suggest that there are few interventions that can match the range of impacts and cost-effectiveness of a small, predictable monetary transfer to poor families in developing countries. However, individual published impact assessments typically focus on only one program and one outcome. This article presents two-year impacts of the Zambian Government's Child Grant, an uncon…
Unconditional government social cash transfer in Africa does not increase fertility
The effect of cash transfers and household vulnerability on food security in Zimbabwe
Cash for Women’s Empowerment? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Government of Zambia’s Child Grant Program
The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of social cash transfer programs in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of cash transfers to empower women, the evidence supporting this outcome is mixed. In addition, there is little evidence from programs at scale in sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a mixed-methods evaluation of the Government of Zambia's Child Grant Program, a poverty-targete…
Does money buy happiness? Evidence from an unconditional cash transfer in Zambia
The relationship between happiness and income has been at the center of a vibrant debate, with both intrinsic and instrumental importance, as emotional states are an important determinant of health and social behavior. We investigate whether a government-run unconditional cash transfer paid directly to women in poor households had an impact on self-reported happiness. The evaluation was designed as a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Z…
Can unconditional cash transfers raise long-term living standards? Evidence from Zambia
In Africa, state-sponsored cash transfer programs now reach nearly 50 million people. Do these programs raise long-term living standards? We examine this question using experimental data from two unconditional cash transfer programs implemented by the Zambian Government. We find far-reaching effects of the programs both on food security and consumption as well as on a range of productive outcomes. After three years, household spending is on avera…
Cash Transfers Enable Households to Cope with Agricultural Production and Price Shocks
Climate change is projected to dramatically disrupt rainfall patterns and agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa. These shocks to food production can mire farming households in poverty traps. This study investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can help households cope with agricultural production and price shocks. We find that cash empowers poor, rural households facing these negative shocks to employ coping strategies typically used …
No Lost Generation
This study documents the impact of a cash transfer programme – known as the No Lost Generation Programme (NLG) and locally as Min Ila (‘from to’) – on the school participation of displaced Syrian children in Lebanon. An initiative of the government of Lebanon, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Food Programme (WFP), the programme provided cash for the benefit of children enrolled in afternoon shifts at public primary schoo…
A cash plus program reduces youth exposure to physical violence in Zimbabwe
Violence against children and adolescents, a highly prevalent problem, is a clear violation of child rights and has detrimental effects on later life outcomes. Programs that alleviate poverty address a structural determinant of child vulnerability and can thereby reduce child abuse. This paper investigates whether the Government of Zimbabwe's Harmonized Social Cash Transfer (HSCT) Program, which combines cash transfers with complementary services…
The Impact of a Large-Scale Poverty-Targeted Cash Transfer Program on Intertemporal Choice
We use a social experiment to test whether the government of Zambia’s cash transfer program affects intertemporal choice. A cash transfer program may also alter expectations about future quality of life and make one happier, two conditions that can affect intertemporal decision-making and the desire to invest in the future. We find that the program affects time discounting and that psychological states are also strongly associated with time disco…
Etiology of sexually transmitted infections among people living with HIV (PLWHIV) within meme division in Cameroon
Introduction Sexually transmitted infections are of great public health importance. The screening of these infections not being part of the routine healthcare package for PLWHIV means most of the infected individuals who are asymptomatic end up being undetected. This study aims to determine the seroprevalence of syphilis, chlamydia, and HBV among PLWHIV in Meme division. Additionally, it aimed to assess the factors associated with STI transmissio…
Economics (11 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (11 works) · Cash (10 works) · Cash transfers (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Finance (8 works) · Poverty (7 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 works) · Geography (5 works)