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TitreCash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers -experimental evidence from Tanzania
AuteurDavid K. Evans, Katrina Kosec
Date de publication2022
ÉditeurCenter for Global Development
Nombre de pages27
RésuméInstitutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect important aspects of preexisting, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. We find 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, our 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.
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