Can Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Nutrition Outcomes for Poor Children in Bangladesh? Evidence from a Pilot Project
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
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There is an increasing recognition that
investment in human development at an earlier age can have a
significant impact on the lifetime earnings capacity of an
individual. This notion is the basis for the popularity of
conditional cash transfer programs to help boost child
health and education outcomes. The evidence on the impact of
conditional cash transfers on health and education outcomes,
however, is mixed. This paper uses panel data from a pilot
project and evaluates the impact of conditional cash
transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes
among poor rural families in Bangladesh. Given
implementation challenges the intervention was not able to
improve school attendance. However the analysis shows that
the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of
wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the
program started, reducing the share of children with
weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the
World Health Organization benchmark by 40 percent. The pilot
was also able to improve nutrition knowledge: there was a
significant increase in the proportion of beneficiary
mothers who knew about the importance of exclusively
breastfeeding infants until the age of six months. The
results also suggest a significant positive impact on food
consumption, especially consumption of food with high
protein content.
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