The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant

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dc.creatorAguero, Jorge
dc.creatorCarter, Michael
dc.creatorWoolard, Ingrid
dc.date2012-12-03T12:05:43Z
dc.date2012-12-03T12:05:43Z
dc.date2006-10
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:05Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:05Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionCash transfer programs are used as new policies to increase nutrition and human capital of children from poor families. We evaluate South Africa's unconditional Child Support Grant (CSG) in which cash grants are made to families with no strings attached. However, in contrast to the market-generated income increases that identified low nutritional elasticities in earlier studies, the income increases generated by the South African cash transfers are almost exclusively assigned to women. Taking advantage of a slow program roll-out that created exogenous variation in the extent of CSGtreatment received by beneficiaries, we utilizes recent methods on continuous treatment to estimate the impact of these transfers on child nutrition. Large dosages of CSG treatment early in life are shown to significantly boost child's nutrition. Additionally, our calculations suggest that discounted rate of return on CSG payments is between a 160% and 230%.
dc.descriptionDFiD and USAID
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/46
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Health KW - South Africa KW - Nutrition KW - Cash transfers KW - Continuous treatment estimator KW - Child support grant LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant TI - The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/46 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/46
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectNutrition
dc.subjectCash transfers
dc.subjectContinuous treatment estimator
dc.subjectChild support grant
dc.titleThe Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Nutrition: The South African Child Support Grant
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
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