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Feed Thy Neighbour: how Social Ties shape Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers on Food Security and Nutrition

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  • Alessandro Carraro
  • Lucia Ferrone

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Economic development in Sub Saharan African countries is strongly tied to households’ ability to cope with exogenous events affecting their well-being. Using data from the Lesotho Child Grant Program dataset we provide evidence on whether households’ food security and nutrition are influenced by the presence of a particular network structure, and if there is any spill-over effect of the program on ineligible households living in treated villages. We take advantage of information on money and in-kind transfers to build a set of indicators representing quantitatively and qualitatively the network architecture of each household. We find relevant spill-over effects of the CGP on the food security and nutrition of ineligible households living in treated villages and embedded in a social network.

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  • Alessandro Carraro & Lucia Ferrone, 2019. "Feed Thy Neighbour: how Social Ties shape Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers on Food Security and Nutrition," Working Papers - Economics wp2019_21.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
    • Handle: RePEc:frz:wpaper:wp2019_21.rdf
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    1. Xu, Cheng & Gao, Jun & Liu, Xinghe & Sun, Yanqi & Koedijk, Kees G., 2023. "Great Chinese famine, corporate social responsibility and firm value," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).

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    Keywords

    Cash Transfers; Informal Networks; Randomized Control Trial Experiment; Food and Nutrition Security; Lesotho;
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    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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