The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. This paper, using a randomized control trial design...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/788751483028902307/The-role-of-information-and-cash-transfers-on-early-childhood-development-evidence-from-Nepal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25834 |
| Summary: | Although substantial progress has been
made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic
maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in
many parts of the developing world. This paper, using a
randomized control trial design in Nepal, evaluates a
program that provided information on best practices in
providing child care and cash to families in extremely poor
areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of
2. The analysis finds significant and sizable impacts of the
information plus cash intervention on maternal knowledge,
behavior, child development, and nutrition. The sizes of
these impacts along some measures of knowledge and
development are significantly different from the
information-only intervention group, suggesting a potential
role for providing a short-term cash safety net along with
information to tackle the problem of malnutrition. |
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