How to save lives during the first 1,000 days of life? Impact analysis of cash transfers on stunting: Evidence from Ecuador

Maria Delgado, Valeria Paz Jiménez and Wilson Guzmán Espinoza

No wp-2025-82, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This study examines the impact of Ecuador's “Bono 1,000 días” (1,000 Days Bond), an unconditional cash transfer program that includes a conditional component, aimed at reducing childhood stunting. Implemented in 2022, this program targets pregnant women and children up to two years old living in poverty, providing them with financial assistance to improve early childhood nutrition and health outcomes.

Keywords: Stunting; Cash transfers; Children; Healthcare; Ecuador (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publ ... ansfers-stunting.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-82

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().