More evidence on the relationship between cash transfers and child height
More evidence on the relationship between cash transfers and child height
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DOI：
10.1080/19439342.2020.1731568
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发表时间：
2020-03-25
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0.9
通讯作者：
Tembo, Gelson
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作者：
Chakrabarti, Averi;Handa, Sudhanshu;Tembo, Gelson
我们研究了赞比亚儿童补助计划——一项针对有5岁以下儿童的农村家庭的无条件现金转移（CT）——在计划启动后的4年内对儿童身高的影响。CT计划对食物支出和用餐频率等营养投入有很大的积极影响，但对儿童年龄身高没有影响。生产函数估计表明，在研究样本中，食物对儿童身高的影响很小。在卫生基础设施差和疾病环境恶劣的环境中，除非辅以补充干预措施，否则单独的CT不太可能解决长期慢性营养不良问题。
We examine the effect of the Zambia Child Grant Programme - an unconditional cash transfer (CT) targeted to rural households with children under age five - on height-for-age up to four years after programme initiation. The CT scheme had large positive effects on nutritional inputs like food expenditure and meal frequency, but no impact on child height-for-age. Production function estimates indicate that food carries little weight in the production of child height in the study sample. In settings with poor health infrastructure and harsh disease environments, a stand-alone CT is unlikely to address long-term chronic malnutrition unless accompanied by complementary interventions.