The Social and Productive Impacts of Zambia's Child Grant

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ID11684172
AutoresSara Handa (0000-0003-2948-1891, autor correspondente), David Seidenfeld, Benjamin Davis (0000-0002-3742-833X), Gelson Tembo (0000-0002-8586-9631), Zambia Cash Transfer Evaluation Team (Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health)
Ano2015
Volume35
Fascículo2
Páginas357-387
Data de publicação2015-12-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/pam.21892
PMID28690353
OpenAlexW2197329140
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas28

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 unconditional cash transfer to families with children under age five, across a wide range of domains including consumption, productive activity and women and children's outcomes, making this one of the first studies to assess both protective and productive impacts of a national unconditional cash transfer program. We show strong impacts on consumption, food security, savings and productive activity. However, impacts in areas such as child nutritional status and schooling depend on initial conditions of the household, suggesting that cash alone is not enough to solve all constraints faced by these poor, rural households. Nevertheless, the apparent transformative effects of this program suggest that unconditional transfers in very poor settings can contribute to both protection and development outcomes

Agriculture · Business · Cash · Cash transfers · Conditional cash transfer · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Food security · Geography · Government (linguistics · Impact evaluation · Poverty · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Social protection · Social security · Sociology · Transfer (computing · Transformative learning · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Finance