Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Nutrition Outcomes for Poor Children in Bangladesh? Evidence from a Pilot Project

Ferre, Celine; Sharif, Iffath

Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Nutrition Outcomes for Poor Children in Bangladesh? Evidence from a Pilot Project

2014

Ferre, Celine | Sharif, Iffath

There is an increasing recognition that investment in human development at an earlier age can have a significant impact on the lifetime earnings capacity of an individual. This notion is the basis for the popularity of conditional cash transfer programs to help boost child health and education outcomes. The evidence on the impact of conditional cash transfers on health and education outcomes, however, is mixed. This paper uses panel data from a pilot project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given implementation challenges the intervention was not able to improve school attendance. However the analysis shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health Organization benchmark by 40 percent. The pilot was also able to improve nutrition knowledge: there was a significant increase in the proportion of beneficiary mothers who knew about the importance of exclusively breastfeeding infants until the age of six months. The results also suggest a significant positive impact on food consumption, especially consumption of food with high protein content.

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aged breastfeeding cash transfers child development child nutrition communities dietary diversity eviction extreme poverty families family planning food consumption food intake gender health services household consumption household income households houses housing human capital immunization income distribution meat migration milk nutrition nutritional status poverty alleviation poverty reduction pregnancy primary education protein content rural areas safety slum slums social protection targeting urban areas vegetables villages

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World Bank Group, Washington, DC

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Access to electricity; Primary education stipend; Rural; Neighborhood; Counterfactual; Human capital formation; Girls; Primary school age; Safety nets; Household heads; Household head; Household welfare; Households with children; Agricultural laborer; Poverty line; Caloric intake; Infant health; Household size; Enrollment; Government primary schools; Employment generation; Enrollment rates; Acute malnutrition; Poor households; Beneficiary households; Safety net programs; School attendance; Household demographics; Safety net; Primary education outcomes; Food poverty line; Caregivers; Poverty rates; Food poverty; Primary schools; Birth certificate; Poor; Primary enrollment; Educational outcomes; Cash transfer programs; Human development; School system; Localities; Poor children; Education services; Rural families; Female; Primary school enrollment; Poor household; Household head age; Schooling; Nutrition interventions; Beneficiary families; Districts; Access to facilities; Village level; Completion rates; Nutrition outcomes; Poverty levels; Primary school; Out of school children; Intervention; Chronic illness; Per capita consumption; Labor market; Poverty lines; Family members; Dropout rates; Chronic malnutrition; Consumption data; Regular school attendance; Education sector; Training programme; Out-of-school children; Poverty indicators; Birth registration; Extremely poor households; Poverty assessment; Means testing; Poverty rate; Interventions; Rural households

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anglais

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Working Paper; Text

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Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Nutrition Outcomes for Poor Children in Bangladesh? Evidence from a Pilot Project

2014

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