6 Background: Cash transfer programs have the potential to improve dietary intake by 7 improving accessibility to food. However, quantitative data on the impact of cash transfer 8 programs on children’s energy and nutrient intake is lacking. 9 Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of seasonal unconditional cash 10 transfer on children’s energy, micro and macronutrient and ...

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Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become extensively used to induce poor parents to increase their investments in the human capital of their children. The condition on school attendance and use of health facilities transforms the transfer into a price effect on the condition. Justification for the condition is to reduce market failures due to positive externalities from investments ...

 Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. There is a large literature on the effects of these programs on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible impacts on child development. This paper analyzes the impact of a cash transfer program on cognitive development in early childhood in rural Nicaragua. Identification is base...

Merchant fees and reward programs generate an implicit monetary transfer from “cash” users to credit card users because merchants generally do not set differential prices for card users to recoup the costs of merchant fees. On average, each cash-using household transfers $50 to households that use credit cards, and each credit card using household receives a subsidy of $240 every year. Among ca...

Government of Nepal has been providing social security allowance to its target group since 1994/95 in the form of cash and kind. Huge amount of money has been distributed by local government employees on manual basis. The needy and targeted poor people have been missed and high chance of double benefits by clever and ghost beneficiaries. The demand of social security allowance grant has been in...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of Mexico's conditional cash transfer programme on the quality of health care received by poor women. Quality is measured by maternal reports of prenatal care procedures received that correspond with clinical guidelines. METHODS The data describe retrospective reports of care received from 892 women in poor rural communities in seven Mexican states. The women...