In this paper we examine the impact of the Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on household dietary diversity and …. To estimate the effect of the program on household dietary diversity, we rely on the exogeneity of the change in the … transfer received by each household. For robustness, we confirm our results using generalized propensity score matching with a …

We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We … household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …

Lesotho has notably high levels of poverty and inequality despite a high level of government spending on social … benefit incidence and microsimulation methods to 2017/2018 household survey data. We investigate the distributional effects of … in Lesotho substantially reduces poverty and inequality. For most programmes, the hypothetical alternative of targeting …