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Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

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Title Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
 
Creator Evans, David K.
Kosec, Katrina
 
Subject cash transfers
programmes
social safety nets
child care
finance
development
accounting
 
Description Institutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. This study reports on a randomized controlled trial used to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. It provides evidence that the introduction of a CCT program increased program beneficiaries’ trust in other community members and their perceived ability to access support from other households (e.g., childcare). Although CCTs reduced the total size of transfers to beneficiary households in the community in the short run (after 1.75 years of transfers), that reduction had disappeared 2.75 years after transfers began. Taken together, this evidence suggests that formal CCT programs do not necessarily crowd out informal safety nets in the longer term, and they may in fact boost trust and support across households.
 
Date 2023-04-18
2023-08-24T16:23:12Z
2023-08-24T16:23:12Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Evans, David K.; and Kosec, Katrina. Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania. World Bank Economic Review 37(2): 221–234. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac030
0258-6770
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131639
https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac030
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 221-234
 
Publisher Oxford University Press (OUP)
 
Source World Bank Economic Review