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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 (CGP) we provide evidence on the presence of any spillover effect of the program on non-eligible households living in treated villages and whether households' food security and nutrition are influenced by the presence of a particular network structure. We take advantage of information on each household's received and disbursed monetary transfers to build a set of indicators representing quantitatively and qualitatively the network architecture of each household. We find relevant spillover effects of the CGP on the food security and nutrition of non-eligible households living in treated villages and embedded in a social network. Geographical proximity seems to be strongly tied to positive spillover effects for food security and access to food.

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  • Alessandro Carraro & Lucia Ferrone, 2024. "Feed Thy Neighbour: How Social Ties Shape Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers on Food Security and Nutrition," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 33(2), pages 130-166.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:33:y:2024:i:2:p:130-166.
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    Lesotho; food and nutrition security; randomised control trial experiment; informal networks; cash transfers; JEL classification: N57; R2;
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    JEL classification:

    • N57 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Africa; Oceania
    • R2 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis

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