Effects of social protection on health

Strupat, Christoph

doi:10.4337/9781839109119.00077

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“…The core purpose of social protection is to reduce vulnerability and poverty in a country by preventing people from falling into poverty ( preventive function ), providing support to those who are living in poverty ( protective function ) and enabling low-income earners escape from poverty ( promotive function ) (Loewe 2009a ). Thereby, it contributes to nutrition, education and health because it allows even low-income people to buy food, consult a physician when they are sick and send their children to school rather than work (Burchi et al 2018 ; Kabeer 2014 ; Strupat 2021 ). And social protection is also one of the most powerful tools to reduce income inequality between social classes (Inchauste and Lustig 2017 ) and genders (Holmes and Jones 2013 ).…”

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Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue

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While there is substantial evidence of the effect of social protection on poverty and vulnerability, limited research has focused on societal outcomes. This paper serves as introduction to a special issue (SI) examining the relationship between social protection and social cohesion in low- and middle-income countries. Over the last years, social cohesion has emerged as a central goal of development policy. The introduction and the papers in the SI use a common definition of social cohesion as a multi-faceted phenomenon, comprising three attributes: cooperation, trust and inclusive identity. This introductory article provides a conceptual framework linking social protection to social cohesion, shows the current empirical evidence for the bi-directional linkages, and highlights how the papers in the SI contribute to filling existing research gaps. In addition to this introduction, the SI encompasses seven papers, covering different world regions and social protection schemes, and using different quantitative and qualitative methods.

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Section: Social Protectionmentioning

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Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue

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“…Initial studies have shown that these measures have been effective in reducing some of the negative economic impacts of the pandemic, including poverty, hunger and inequality (Abay et al 2021 ; Banerjee et al 2020 ; Bottan et al 2021 ; Lustig et al 2020 ). However, in the past years, the goals of social protection have been expanded, and it has been recognised that social protection can also affect more complex outcomes, such as human capital, health and social cohesion (Garcia-Mandicó et al 2021 ; Koehler 2021 ; Strupat 2021 ). The literature on the relationship with social cohesion is still limited and does not consider covariate shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, that alone can affect social cohesion.…”

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Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Kenya

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2022

Eur J Dev Res

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This paper examines empirically whether social protection in the form of social assistance programmes are affecting social cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using unique primary data from nationally representative, in-person surveys from Kenya allows for the exploration of the effect of social protection on attributes of social cohesion. The analysis employs a difference-in-differences approach that compares households with and without social assistance coverage before and after the first wave of the pandemic. The main findings show that social assistance does not influence attributes of social cohesion. One potential explanation of this result is that social assistance benefits were in general too small to entirely offset the negative economic consequences of the pandemic. Overall, these results point to the limitations of social assistance programmes that do not necessarily affect social cohesion in times of large covariate shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Effects of social protection on health

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Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue

Disentangling the Relationship Between Social Protection and Social Cohesion: Introduction to the Special Issue

Social Protection and Social Cohesion in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Kenya

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