The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning
This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children who were exposed to the randomized controlled trial of the Mexico's Food Support Program (the Programa de Apoyo Alimenta...
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okr-10986-330552022-09-20T00:13:37Z The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning Avitabile, Ciro Cunha, Jesse M. Meilman Cohn, Ricardo CASH TRANSFERS LEARNING OUTCOMES IN-KIND TRANSFERS Programa de Apoyo Alimentario NUTRITION PRIMARY EDUCATION STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES This paper studies the medium-term impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's learning. It studies children who were exposed to the randomized controlled trial of the Mexico's Food Support Program (the Programa de Apoyo Alimentario, PAL), in which households were assigned to receive cash, in-kind food transfers, or nothing (a control). The children are matched with administrative data on primary school standardized tests, which were taken four to 10 years after the experiment began. The findings show that in-kind transfers did not impact test scores, while cash transfers led to a significant and meaningful decrease in test scores. An analysis of the mechanisms driving these results reveals that both transfers led to an increase in child labor, which is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers, however, induced a greater consumption of several key micronutrients that are vital for brain development, which likely attenuated the negative impacts of child labor on learning. 2019-12-19T17:15:22Z 2019-12-19T17:15:22Z 2019-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346501576597006155/The-Medium-Term-Impacts-of-Cash-and-In-kind-Food-Transfers-on-Learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33055 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9086 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 Latin America & Caribbean Mexico |
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CASH TRANSFERS LEARNING OUTCOMES IN-KIND TRANSFERS Programa de Apoyo Alimentario NUTRITION PRIMARY EDUCATION STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES Avitabile, Ciro Cunha, Jesse M. Meilman Cohn, Ricardo The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning |
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This paper studies the medium-term
impact of early-life welfare transfers on children's
learning. It studies children who were exposed to the
randomized controlled trial of the Mexico's Food
Support Program (the Programa de Apoyo Alimentario, PAL), in
which households were assigned to receive cash, in-kind food
transfers, or nothing (a control). The children are matched
with administrative data on primary school standardized
tests, which were taken four to 10 years after the
experiment began. The findings show that in-kind transfers
did not impact test scores, while cash transfers led to a
significant and meaningful decrease in test scores. An
analysis of the mechanisms driving these results reveals
that both transfers led to an increase in child labor, which
is likely detrimental to learning. In-kind food transfers,
however, induced a greater consumption of several key
micronutrients that are vital for brain development, which
likely attenuated the negative impacts of child labor on learning. |
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Avitabile, Ciro Cunha, Jesse M. Meilman Cohn, Ricardo |
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Avitabile, Ciro Cunha, Jesse M. Meilman Cohn, Ricardo |
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Avitabile, Ciro |
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The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning |
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The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning |
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The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning |
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The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning |
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The Medium Term Impacts of Cash and In-kind Food Transfers on Learning |
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medium term impacts of cash and in-kind food transfers on learning |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346501576597006155/The-Medium-Term-Impacts-of-Cash-and-In-kind-Food-Transfers-on-Learning http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33055 |
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