The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As a source of income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, w...

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Main Authors:	Buser, Thomas, Oosterbeek, Hessel, Plug, Erik, Ponce, Juan, Rosero, José
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	INCOME CHILD HEALTH CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL INTERACTION MODELS QUANTILE REGRESSIONS INEQUALITY
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31478

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spelling	okr-10986-314782021-05-25T10:54:37Z The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children Buser, Thomas Oosterbeek, Hessel Plug, Erik Ponce, Juan Rosero, José INCOME CHILD HEALTH CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL INTERACTION MODELS QUANTILE REGRESSIONS INEQUALITY We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As a source of income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no statistically significant effect on young children's height and weight two years after gaining the cash transfer. Information on household expenditures suggests that a reduction of food expenditures by households that lost the transfer is the main mechanism behind this finding. 2019-04-01T19:53:54Z 2019-04-01T19:53:54Z 2017-10-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31478 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Ecuador
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spellingShingle	INCOME CHILD HEALTH CASH TRANSFERS SOCIAL INTERACTION MODELS QUANTILE REGRESSIONS INEQUALITY Buser, Thomas Oosterbeek, Hessel Plug, Erik Ponce, Juan Rosero, José The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
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description	We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country. As a source of income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for receipt of an unconditional cash transfer in Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no statistically significant effect on young children's height and weight two years after gaining the cash transfer. Information on household expenditures suggests that a reduction of food expenditures by households that lost the transfer is the main mechanism behind this finding.
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author	Buser, Thomas Oosterbeek, Hessel Plug, Erik Ponce, Juan Rosero, José
author_facet	Buser, Thomas Oosterbeek, Hessel Plug, Erik Ponce, Juan Rosero, José
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title	The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
title_short	The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
title_full	The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
title_fullStr	The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
title_full_unstemmed	The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
title_sort	impact of positive and negative income changes on the height and weight of young children
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

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