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Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting

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dc.contributor.authorBarry, Oumar
dc.contributor.authorPremand, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-27T14:47:03Z
dc.date.available2020-08-27T14:47:03Z
dc.date.issued2020-08
dc.description.abstractSigns of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change promotion or parenting interventions to improve early childhood development. This paper disentangles the effects of behavioral change promotion from cash transfers to poor households through an experiment embedded in a government program in Niger. The study is also designed to identify within-community spillovers from the behavioral change intervention. The findings show that behavioral change promotion affects a range of practices related to nutrition, health, stimulation, and child protection. Local spillovers on parenting practices are also found. Moderate gains in children's socio-emotional development are observed, but there are no improvements in anthropometrics or cognitive development. Cash transfers alone do not alter parenting practices or improve early childhood development. Cash transfers improve welfare and food security at the household level, and the behavioral intervention induces intra-household reallocations toward children.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/756191598464680389/Behavioral-Change-Promotion-Cash-Transfers-and-Early-Childhood-Development-Experimental-Evidence-from-a-Government-Program-in-a-Low-Income-Setting
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9368
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34385
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9368
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectEARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectPARENTING
dc.subjectBEHAVIORAL CHANGE COMMUNICATION
dc.subjectCASH TRANSFERS
dc.subjectSPILLOVER EFFECT
dc.subjectFIELD EXPERIMENT
dc.subjectMALNUTRITION
dc.subjectCOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
dc.titleBehavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Developmenten
dc.title.subtitleExperimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Settingen
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okr.crossref.titleBehavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development : Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting
okr.date.disclosure2020-08-26
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/756191598464680389/Behavioral-Change-Promotion-Cash-Transfers-and-Early-Childhood-Development-Experimental-Evidence-from-a-Government-Program-in-a-Low-Income-Setting
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9368
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryNigeria
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okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Early Child and Children's Health
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Nutrition
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Conditional Cash Transfers
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Services & Transfers to Poor
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Social Protections & Assistance
okr.unitSocial Protection and Jobs Global Practice; and Development Impact Evaluation Group, Development Economics
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