More evidence on the relationship between cash transfers and child height

Averi Chakrabarti, Sudhanshu Handa, Luisa Natali, David Seidenfeld and Gelson Tembo

Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, 14-37

Abstract: We examine the effect of the Zambia Child Grant Programme – an unconditional cash transfer (CT) targeted to rural households with children under age five – on height-for-age up to four years after programme initiation. The CT scheme had large positive effects on nutritional inputs like food expenditure and meal frequency, but no impact on child height-for-age. Production function estimates indicate that food carries little weight in the production of child height in the study sample. In settings with poor health infrastructure and harsh disease environments, a stand-alone CT is unlikely to address long-term chronic malnutrition unless accompanied by complementary interventions.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2020.1731568

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