TY - UNPB
T1 - Social Protection and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Three Large-scale Programs
AU - Borga, Liyousew
AU - D’Ambrosio, Conchita
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - Social-protection schemes have become a popular form of government intervention in developing countries. The empirical evidence is still scant on their effectiveness in reducing within-household inequality and poverty. To this aim we use data from the Young Lives cohort study, and evaluate the role played in it by three large-scale social-protection schemes – the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India, and the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru. We find that these programs fail to reach all poor individuals since undernourished as even poor children are spread across the distribution of household per capita expenditure. Participating in the programs, however, has some positive impact. Program participant households do experience a reduction in child undernutrition once enrolled in the programs. At the same time, these programs are successful to divert resources from adults to children, and hence to reduce within-household inequality.
AB - Social-protection schemes have become a popular form of government intervention in developing countries. The empirical evidence is still scant on their effectiveness in reducing within-household inequality and poverty. To this aim we use data from the Young Lives cohort study, and evaluate the role played in it by three large-scale social-protection schemes – the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India, and the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru. We find that these programs fail to reach all poor individuals since undernourished as even poor children are spread across the distribution of household per capita expenditure. Participating in the programs, however, has some positive impact. Program participant households do experience a reduction in child undernutrition once enrolled in the programs. At the same time, these programs are successful to divert resources from adults to children, and hence to reduce within-household inequality.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - AFD research papers
BT - Social Protection and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Three Large-scale Programs
PB - Agence française de développement
ER -