The Fading Treatment Effects of a Multifaceted Asset-Transfer Program in Ethiopia

Nathan Barker, Dean Karlan, Christopher Udry and Kelsey Wright

American Economic Review: Insights, 2024, vol. 6, issue 2, 277-94

Abstract: We study the long-run effects of a big-push "graduation" program in Ethiopia in which very poor households received a one-time transfer of productive assets (mainly livestock), technical training, and access to savings accounts. After seven years, treatment effects on wealth and consumption remain economically meaningful but dissipated relative to the two- and three-year results. Treatment effects on other outcomes attenuated further. Based on absolute well-being (e.g., food security) not dropping, we argue that the treatment effect dissipation is driven primarily by improved living standards for control households rather than losses of the previously accrued benefits for the treatment households.

JEL-codes: D12 G51 I31 I32 I38 J24 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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