Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

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dc.creatorEvans, David K.
dc.creatorKosec, Katrina
dc.date2023-04-18
dc.date2023-08-24T16:23:12Z
dc.date2023-08-24T16:23:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:01:29Z
dc.descriptionInstitutionalized conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs may affect pre-existing, informal safety nets such as inter-household transfers and trust among community members. This study reports on a randomized controlled trial used to test the impact of CCTs on various measures of trust and informal safety nets within communities in Tanzania. It provides 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, this 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/131639
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92385
dc.languageen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceEvans, David K.; and Kosec, Katrina. Cash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania. World Bank Economic Review 37(2): 221–234. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhac030
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectprogrammes
dc.subjectsocial safety nets
dc.subjectchild care
dc.subjectfinance
dc.subjectdevelopment
dc.subjectaccounting
dc.titleCash transfers, trust, and inter-household transfers: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
dc.typeJournal Article

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