Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program

Aygün, Aysun; Kïrdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat; Stoeffler, Quentin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3879361

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“…For human capital outcomes, such as nutrition (food security, dietary diversity, and caloric consumption), there have been mostly positive results (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;van Daalen et al 2022;Ecker et al 2019;Salti et al 2022). Similar positive findings were observed for education outcomes (Moussa et al 2022;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022) and child labor-related outcomes (Moussa et al 2022;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022). However, fewer impact evaluations have examined their performance in fragile contexts and for displaced populations and to our knowledge, there is no evidence from quantitative impact evaluations in the particular context of Venezuelan migration crisis.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Findings from existing evidence are promising, but geographically sparse. Cash transfers have been found to increase access to basic necessities, such as housing (Hagen-Zanker et al 2018;Aker 2017), and improve the economic well-being and inequality (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;Aygün et al 2021;Salti et al 2022). For human capital outcomes, such as nutrition (food security, dietary diversity, and caloric consumption), there have been mostly positive results (Özler et al 2021;Doocy and Tappis 2017;van Daalen et al 2022;Ecker et al 2019;Salti et al 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

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An impact assessment of EAMDA’s banana initiative to increase technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Kenya

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An impact assessment of EAMDA’s banana initiative to increase technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Kenya

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et al. 2023

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“…Second, we contribute to the emerging literature on the effects of cash transfers for forcibly displaced individuals (Altındağ and O'Connell, 2023;Aygün et al, 2021;Hussam et al, 2022;Ibáñez et al, 2022;Özler et al, 2021). This group now includes over 100 million people, which is the highest it has ever been in modern history and has more than doubled in the last decade (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2022).…”

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confidence: 98%

Reparations as Development? Evidence from Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

Guarin¹,

Londoño-Vélez²,

Posso³

2023

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Our study is the first to investigate the effects of reparations for victims of gross human rights violations. In Colombia, victims of forced displacement, homicide, and other atrocities during the conflict received a lump-sum payment equal to three times their annual household income. Using novel linked administrative microdata and event studies, we show that reparations help victims rebuild their lives and significantly improve their well-being and that of their children. Specifically, reparations promote investment in physical and human capital, leading to enhanced living and health conditions, better educational outcomes, and increased asset-building and entrepreneurship, despite slightly discouraging labor supply.

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“…Starting from 2016, the ECHO 2 -funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme was introduced as the largest cash assistance programme in the world, reaching over 1.5 million refugees in Türkiye in 2018when the research data was collected (Cuevas et al, 2019). Aygun et al (2021) documented higher likelihood for sending children to school among beneficiary households from the ESSN, underlying the opportunity cost and direct cost of schooling. While the ESSN remains one of the main income sources, the financial assistance variable used in this study covers all kinds of financial assistance provided to only Syrian refugees in Türkiye.…”

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Impact of financial assistance on stunting: Syrian refugee children under 5 in Türkiye

Ay Kesgin,

Saraç,

Grede

et al. 2024

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Despite the global decrease over the last two decades, stunting, also called ‘chronic malnutrition’, remains a public health issue affecting almost 150 million children under the age of 5 years globally. Defined by height-for-age, stunting is the consequence of poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation. Programmes and policies target undernutrition globally, and humanitarian and development actors invest great efforts to prevent stunting. This study uses multivariate analysis to examine the impact of financial assistance on the reduction of stunting in a refugee context, focusing on Syrian refugee children under the age of 5 years in Türkiye. Using a unique dataset, the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey Syrian Migrant Sample (2018 TDHS-SR), the findings indicate that financial assistance significantly reduces the incidence of stunting among refugee children under the control of economic, mother and children, environmental, health-related and nutritional and breastfeeding characteristics. However, having household members generate income is found to be another stronger predictor to reduce stunting. The paper also argues that the nutritional well-being of refugee children might improve if forced migration occurs towards a stable host country/region. In addition, adaptation over time also seems to have a positive influence.

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Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

An impact assessment of EAMDA’s banana initiative to increase technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Kenya

An impact assessment of EAMDA’s banana initiative to increase technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Kenya

Reparations as Development? Evidence from Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict

Impact of financial assistance on stunting: Syrian refugee children under 5 in Türkiye

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