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Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. Even though...
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This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in a developing … country context using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as short-run and long-run measures of schooling. Using a … child-level longitudinal data set from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional schooling demand function where the …
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has been successful in improving household food security. However, children's nutritional status in the localities where … the PSNP operates is poor, with 48 percent of children stunted in 2012. This leads to the question of whether the PSNP … could improve child nutrition. In this paper, we examine the impact of the PSNP on children's nutritional status over the …
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This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP), the largest social protection program in sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. Using Propensity Score Matching techniques, we find that the programme has little impact on participants on average, due in...
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children. Children who were enrolled in the CSG at birth completed 0.14 more grades of schooling than children who were … mothers with at least some secondary education. This occurs because early receipt of CSG reduces the likelihood that children …This paper examines the impact of South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) on the schooling and learning attainments of …
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