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SUBMITTER: Handa S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6687333 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of development economics 20180202
In Africa, state-sponsored cash transfer programs now reach nearly 50 million people. Do these programs raise long-term living standards? We examine this question using experimental data from two unconditional cash transfer programs implemented by the Zambian Government. We find far-reaching effects of the programs both on food security and consumption as well as on a range of productive outcomes. After three years, household spending is on average 67 percent larger than the value of the transfe ...[more]