Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh

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dc.creatorAhmed, Akhter
dc.creatorHoddinott, John F.
dc.creatorRoy, Shalini
dc.date2019-09-26
dc.date2024-06-21T09:10:42Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:10:42Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:03:27Z
dc.descriptionThe importance of children’s nutritional status for subsequent human capital formation, the limited evidence of the effectiveness of social protection interventions on child nutrition, and the absence of knowledge on the intra-household impacts of cash and food transfers or how they are shaped by complementary programming motivate this paper. We implemented two, linked randomized control trials in rural Bangladesh, with treatment arms including cash transfers, a food ration, or a mixed food and cash transfer, as well as treatments where cash and nutrition behavior change communication (BCC) or where food and nutrition BCC were provided. Only cash plus nutrition BCC had a significant impact on nutritional status, but its effect on height-for-age z scores (HAZ) was large, 0.25SD. We explore the mechanisms underlying this impact. Improved diets – including increased intake of animal source foods – along with reductions in illness in the cash plus BCC treatment arm are consistent with the improvement we observe in children’s HAZ.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147037
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93293
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00791
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980017004232
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12498
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179866
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148633
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134221
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134946
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134479
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143094
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAhmed, Akhter; Hoddinott, John F.; and Roy, Shalini. 2019. Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1868. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147037
dc.subjectbehavioural sciences
dc.subjectsocial protection
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectcash transfers
dc.subjectbehaviour
dc.subjectcommunication
dc.titleFood transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh
dc.typeWorking Paper

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