Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme

Sebastian, Ashwini Rekha; Campos, Ana Paula de la O; Daidone, Silvio; Davis, Benjamin; Niang, Ousmane; Pellerano, Luca

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2016/151-2

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“…We consider whether the child is currently enrolled in any educational grade, distinguishing between boys and girls education. 8 The results are striking and are consistent with Sebastian et al (2016). 9 CGP positively and significantly affect school enrolment of boys but not of girls, especially in female headed households.…”

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“…The results are not reported here but are available upon request. 9 Using the same data but adopting a different analytical framework, Sebastian et al (2016) specifically look at impact of CGP on children schooling, labour and time use, with a particular focus on differentiated impacts by gender and household structure. Note: Robust t-statistics clustered at the community level are in brackets.…”

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Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Evidence from Lesotho†

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Cash transfer programmes have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes. While much of the literature focuses on the role of conditionality in achieving desired impact, this paper focuses on the role of 'soft conditionality' implemented through both 'labelling' and 'messaging' in evaluating the impact of the Child Grants Program in Lesotho, an unconditional cash transfer programme targeting poor households with orphans and vulnerable children. Beneficiary households received a clear message that the transfer should be spent on the interest and needs of children. Our findings suggest that 'soft conditionality' does play a role in increasing expenditure for children, especially on education, clothing and footwear. Results indicate in fact that transfer income is spent differently from general income as it exerts both an income and a substitution effect. This behavioural change is confirmed by comparing the ex-ante expected behaviours with the ex-post actual response to the programme. We find that for expenditure categories linked to the well-being of children the expost response was much higher than the ex-ante expected behaviour.

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“…Several quantitative studies document the effects of unconditional cash transfer programs, such as Malawi’s SCTP, on child and adolescent work (see also De Hoop & Rosati, 2014). 3 Most of these studies find that such programs lower participation in economic activities and household chores (Covarrubias, Davis, & Winters, 2012; Edmonds, 2006; Edmonds & Schady, 2012; Handa et al, 2016; Sebastian et al, 2016). The quantitative evaluation of Malawi’s SCTP program referred to in the introduction (De Hoop et al, 2017) finds the opposite pattern.…”

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The role of productive activities in the lives of adolescents: Photovoice evidence from Malawi

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Children and Youth Services Review

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Adolescence is an important transitional period, separate from both childhood and adulthood. Critical physical and mental development occurs during adolescence, including emotional skills, physical, and mental abilities. Behaviors adopted during this lifecourse period have critical implications for adolescents’ future health and well-being. The main research question of the present study is: what is the role of productive activities in the lives and development of adolescents in rural Malawi? As part of this study, selected adolescents from poor rural households were asked to take photographs of their daily (productive) activities. These photographs served as a starting point for focus group discussions. In addition to including adolescents, we conducted qualitative interviews with caregivers and teachers to triangulate and obtain a more holistic understanding of adolescent engagement in productive activities. The main themes that emerged were that 1) the work that is conducted by adolescent boys and girls inside and outside the household is not only perceived by adolescents as a product of poverty, but as a point of pride, as well as a potential means of providing for one’s future, 2) there is a tension between the needs of the family and schooling, and 3) adolescent productive activities are associated with minor although not negligible hazards and injuries. We discuss that these qualitative findings help to better understand how social protection interventions, such as Malawi’s Social Cash Transfer Program, may affect adolescent engagement in work and adolescent wellbeing more generally.

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“…The reason female recipients may be more likely to spend the money in farm activities could be related to women facing higher barriers in participating in the paid labour market. In fact, previous research has found that a greater engagement in farm labour of adult women in female‐headed households (Sebastian et al ., ). One further reason may be related to other characteristics of the programme, such as targeting.…”

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How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Cross‐Country Comparisons in SSA

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Over the past decade, several African governments have launched Cash Transfer (CT) programmes as part of their social protection systems, with the aim of reducing poverty. Such programmes can also have significant productive impacts. We use data from four major CT programmes implemented in sub-Saharan Africa to estimate their impacts on labour supply and demand and how effects change in relation to transfer size. We find evidence of labour reallocation between farm and off-farm work and limited evidence of monotonicity of the labour supply-transfer size relationship.Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla,

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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme

Abstract: This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project on 'The political economy of social protection systems' which is part of a larger research project on 'The economics and politics of taxation and social protection'.

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Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Evidence from Lesotho†

Shaping Cash Transfer Impacts Through ‘Soft-Conditions’: Evidence from Lesotho†

The role of productive activities in the lives of adolescents: Photovoice evidence from Malawi

How Differences in Cash Transfer Sizes Affect Work Allocation Decisions: Evidence from Cross‐Country Comparisons in SSA

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