Publication: Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
| creativeworkseries.issn | 1564-698X | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hirvonen, Kalle | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hoddinott, John | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-01T19:58:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-01T19:58:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-02-24 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia, where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. Even though most payments are made in cash, and even though the (temporal) transaction costs associated with food payments are higher than payments received as cash, most beneficiaries stated that they prefer their payments only or partly in food. Higher food prices induce shifts in stated preferences toward in-kind transfers. More food-secure households, those closer to food markets and to financial services are more likely to prefer cash. Though shifts occur, the stated preference for food is dominant: In no year do more than 17 percent of households prefer only cash. There is suggestive evidence that stated preferences for food are also driven by self-control concerns. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | The World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/40805 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-6770 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1564-698X (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40805 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | World Bank Economic Review | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ | |
| dc.subject | SOCIAL PROTECTION | |
| dc.subject | FOOD TRANSFERS | |
| dc.subject | CASH TRANSFERS | |
| dc.subject | ETHIOPIA | |
| dc.subject | PSNP | |
| dc.title | Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments | en |
| dc.title.subtitle | Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| okr.associatedcontent | https://academic.oup.com/wber/article/35/2/398/5754024 Journal website (version of record) | |
| okr.crossref.title | Beneficiary Views on Cash and In-Kind Payments: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme | |
| okr.date.disclosure | 2020-02-24 | |
| okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
| okr.doctype | Publications & Research::Journal Article | |
| okr.identifier.doi | doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhaa002 | |
| okr.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40805 | |
| okr.language.supported | en | |
| okr.pagenumber | 398–413 | |
| okr.peerreview | Academic Peer Review | |
| okr.region.administrative | Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) | |
| okr.region.country | Ethiopia | |
| okr.topic | Finance and Financial Sector Development::Payment Systems & Infrastructure | |
| okr.topic | Poverty Reduction::Conditional Cash Transfers | |
| okr.topic | Social Protections and Labor::Safety Nets and Transfers | |
| okr.volume | 35 (2) | |
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