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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Main Authors:	Levere, Michael, Acharya, Gayatri, Bharadwaj, Prashant
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	cash transfers information early childhood development nutrition maternal health randomized controlled trial malnutrition safety nets
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

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spelling	okr-10986-258342021-06-08T14:42:46Z The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal Levere, Michael Acharya, Gayatri Bharadwaj, Prashant cash transfers information early childhood development nutrition maternal health randomized controlled trial malnutrition safety nets 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. 2017-01-10T18:18:08Z 2017-01-10T18:18:08Z 2016-12 Working Paper 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7931 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia Nepal
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Levere, Michael Acharya, Gayatri Bharadwaj, Prashant
author_facet	Levere, Michael Acharya, Gayatri Bharadwaj, Prashant
author_sort	Levere, Michael
title	The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
title_short	The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
title_full	The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
title_fullStr	The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
title_full_unstemmed	The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal
title_sort	role of information and cash transfers on early childhood development : evidence from nepal
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	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
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The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal

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