The impact of the Mamata conditional cash transfer program on child nutrition in Odisha, India.
India
child malnutrition
conditional cash transfers
inequality
Journal
Health economics
ISSN: 1099-1050
Titre abrégé: Health Econ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306780
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2023
09 2023
Historique:
revised:
23
04
2023
received:
10
12
2021
accepted:
16
05
2023
medline:
2
8
2023
pubmed:
7
7
2023
entrez:
7
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Based on a triple difference estimation, this paper shows that the impact of a universal cash transfer on child nutrition differs by household wealth. In 2011, Odisha state in India introduced a conditional maternal cash transfer named "Mamata Scheme". Using data from the National Family Health Survey, I find that the program reduced child wasting by 7 percentage points, a 39% reduction compared to the average prevalence of wasting in the pre-program period. The reduction in child wasting is driven by children from households in the top four of five national wealth quintiles, for whom the program reduced wasting by 13 percentage points or a reduction of about 80%. Children from households in the bottom wealth quintile were 13 percentage points more likely to suffer from wasting than their wealthier counterparts. Reduction in stunting is also limited to children from households in the top four wealth quintiles, with an average program effect of 12 percentage points, that is, a 40% reduction. The results suggest that access to universal cash benefit schemes is important for mothers and children from marginalized households to realize proportionate benefits.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2127-2146Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Health Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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