Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Ineligible Children

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Filmer, Deon; Friedman, Jed; Kandpal, Eeshani; Onishi, Junko
• 署名单位: The World Bank
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01061
• 发表日期: 2023-03
• 页码: 327-343
• 关键词: spatial variation; rural roads; QUALITY; program; CONSEQUENCES; quantity; welfare

摘要

Can cash aid harm nonrecipients by raising local prices? We show that a household-targeted cash transfer in the Philippines increases the prices of perishable foods in some markets and raises stunting among nonbeneficiary children by 11 percentage points (34%). Impacts increase in the size of the village income shock and remoteness---and are sustained two and a half years after program introduction. Price effects from an experimental sample are confirmed with national expenditure surveys collected during program scale-up. Household-targeted cash transfers can thus generate local spillovers that undermine program goals. Selected geographic targeting may avoid price spillovers at moderate additional cost.