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Title Cash versus Kind: Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program against Unconditional Cash Transfers in Rwanda | ||
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https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x35m7mm | ||
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Date 2021 | ||
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Author(s) McIntosh, Craig; Zeitlin, Andrew | ||
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Abstract We benchmark a multi-dimensional child nutrition intervention against an unconditional cash transfer of equal cost. Randomized variation in transfer amounts allows us to estimate impacts of cash transfers at expenditure levels equivalent to the in-kind program, as well as to estimate the return to increasing cash transfer values. While neither the in-kind program nor a cost-equivalent transfer costing $124 per household moves core child outcomes within a year, cash transfers create significantly greater consumption than the in-kind alternative. A larger cash transfer costing $517 substantially improves consumption and investment outcomes and drives modest improvements in dietary diversity and child growth. | ||
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Subject(s) Experimental Design; Cash Transfers; Malnutrition | ||
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Publisher eScholarship, University of California | ||
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Type of publication article | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Rights public | ||
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Identifier qt4x35m7mm | ||
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Repository Berkeley - University of California 
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