Cash Transfers, Trust, and Inter-household Transfers
Institutionalized 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.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2023-01-24
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| Subjects: | CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS, INFORMAL SAFETY NETS, SERVICE DELIVERY, TRUST, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099141309042347474/IDU0b4489fca0750004a310be040e752ac19e7a7 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41310 |
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