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Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia

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Title Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia
 
Creator Abay, Kibrom A.
Abay, Mehari Hiluf
Berhane, Guush
Chamberlin, Jordan
 
Subject households
social welfare
impacts
rural
social safety nets
transfers
income
 
Description Improving household resilience is becoming one of the key focus and target of social protection programs in Africa. However, there is surprisingly little direct evidence of the impacts of social protection programs on household resilience measures. We use five rounds of panel data to examine rural households’ resilience outcomes associated with participation in Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP). Following Cissé and Barrett (2018), we employ a probabilistic moment-based approach for measuring resilience and evaluate the role of PSNP transfers and duration of participation on households’ resilience. We document four important findings. First, although PSNP transfers are positively associated with resilience, PSNP transfers below the median are less likely to generate meaningful improvements in resilience. Second, continuous participation in the PSNP is associated with higher resilience. Third, combining safety nets with income generating or asset building initiatives may be particularly efficacious at building poor households’ resilience. Fourth, our evaluation of both short-term welfare (consumption) and longer-term outcomes (resilience) suggests that these outcomes are likely to be driven by different factors, suggesting that optimizing intervention designs for improving short term welfare impacts may not necessarily improve households’ resilience, and vice versa. Together, our findings imply that effectively boosting household resilience may require significant transfers over multiple years. National safety nets programs that transfer small amounts to beneficiaries over limited time horizons may not be very effective.
 
Date 2022-10
2023-01-16T15:21:19Z
2023-01-16T15:21:19Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Abay, Kibrom A.; Abay, Mehari Hiluf; Berhane, Guush; and Chamberlin, Jordan. 2022. Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia. Food Policy 112(October 2022): 102367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102367
0306-9192
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127224
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102367
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 102367
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Food Policy