Are Cash Transfers Better Chunky or Smooth?: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Northern Nigeria

Bastian, Gautam; Goldstein, Markus; Papineni, Sreelakshmi

doi:10.1596/28434

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“…For example, in their study in Kenya, Haushofer & Shapiro (2016 found that lump sum transfers are more likely to be spent on household durable goods and building assets compared with monthly transfers. Comparing the transfer of the same amount in monthly versus quarterly disbursements in Northern Nigeria, Bastian et al (2017) found similar effects of both interventions across food security and assets, and they concluded in favour of lumping transfer to improve cost-effectiveness by lowering administrative costs. From the studies that compare the effects of different cash sizes, the evidence from Sri Lanka (De Mel et al, 2012) and Kenya (Delius et al, 2020;Haushofer & Shapiro, 2016 shows an expected pattern of large cash grants generating larger impact on investments in assets, livestock and non-farm micro-enterprises.…”

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Supporting Micro-enterprise in Humanitarian Programming: Impact Evaluation of Business Grants versus Unconditional Cash Transfer

Abdullahi¹,

Ali

Kipchumba³

et al. 2022

Journal of African Economies

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Humanitarian programming in fragile economies often use unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) to offset food insecurity. However, there is an increasing focus on using cash transfers to boost household incomes beyond the short-term through micro-enterprise start-up and growth. This paper conducts a randomised control trial to measure the impact of three different sizes of business grants against UCT in Somalia. We find that giving the same amount of money as a lump sum business grant results in higher likelihood of business ownership and income compared with UCT in the short run (3–4 months after the transfers). However, the impacts are larger and persist 3 years later only for those who received larger amount of grants. The results indicate our ‘medium’-sized grant being more cost-effective.

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confidence: 89%

Supporting Micro-enterprise in Humanitarian Programming: Impact Evaluation of Business Grants versus Unconditional Cash Transfer

Abdullahi¹,

Ali

Kipchumba³

et al. 2022

Journal of African Economies

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“…The study evaluated the impacts of a package of livelihoods interventions, unconditional cash transfers, and a mentoring program, and was implemented by Catholic Relief Services (Bastian, Goldstein and Papineni, 2017). The cash transfers and most livelihoods programming ended in 2017, approximately 12 months before these data were collected.…”

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Method Matters: Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda

Cullen

2022

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Can remittances contribute to financing climate actions in developing countries? Evidence from analyses of households’ climate hazard exposure and adaptation actors in SE Nigeria

Maduekwe

Adesina

2021

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Migrant remittances are potentially significant sources of funding for climate change adaptation and resilience building in developing countries. However, very little is understood about the linkages between climate actions and remittances at the household level. It is not clear how remittances can affect households’ responses to climate change. This paper presents evidence from analyses of the associations between remittances to households, their climate hazard exposure, and adaptation actors. It uses concurrent data on international remittances receipts, three climate change related hazards (flooding, intense and irregular rainfall), and main adaptation actors (self/family, community, government, and NGOs) from over 600 households in South Eastern Nigeria. The results showed that household incidence of remittances is low (15%) while exposure to climate hazards is higher (flooding: 41.2%, intense rainfall: 47.1%, irregular rainfall: 29.9%). Nominal (contingency coefficient) associations between remittances and household climate hazard exposure and remittances and household adaptation actors were mostly moderate and insignificant. Therefore, households that received remittances and those that did not were not significantly different in terms of their exposure to climate hazard and main actors in climate adaptation. Self/families were the main actors in household climate actions. Governments and NGO actors were less prominent. The results suggest that unregulated remittances have limited impact on household climate hazard exposure and adaptive actions. However, there are indications that the contribution of remittances to financing climate adaptation may be enhanced by addressing issues with cost of remitting and remittee understanding of climate change to increase remittances volumes, incidence, and use.

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Are Cash Transfers Better Chunky or Smooth?: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation of a Cash Transfer Program in Northern Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Supporting Micro-enterprise in Humanitarian Programming: Impact Evaluation of Business Grants versus Unconditional Cash Transfer

Supporting Micro-enterprise in Humanitarian Programming: Impact Evaluation of Business Grants versus Unconditional Cash Transfer

Method Matters: Underreporting of Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria and Rwanda

Can remittances contribute to financing climate actions in developing countries? Evidence from analyses of households’ climate hazard exposure and adaptation actors in SE Nigeria

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