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Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme

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  • Marco d’Errico
  • Alessandra Garbero
  • Marco Letta
  • Paul Winters

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Social protection programmes can play a crucial role in enhancing household resilience. Although there is vast evidence on the impact of cash transfer projects on many welfare outcomes, no study examines the impact of cash transfers on a composite measure of resilience. This paper fills this important gap by employing a difference-in-difference estimator in the context of a randomised control trial in Lesotho to explore the causal effect of a Child Grant Programme on resilience capacity. Results show a positive and significant short-term impact, largely driven by the beneficial effects for less resilient households. The main transmission channels are increases in household expenditure and food security. Strong stimulus of the Programme on expenditure in education, a key resilience determinant, anticipates longer-run virtuous intergenerational dynamics in resilience building. The policy implication of this work is that social protection interventions should be embedded within the larger framework of resilience-enhancing programmes.

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  • Marco d’Errico & Alessandra Garbero & Marco Letta & Paul Winters, 2020. "Evaluating Program Impact on Resilience: Evidence from Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(12), pages 2212-2234, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:56:y:2020:i:12:p:2212-2234
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1746279
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    1. Wolfgang Stojetz & Piero Ronzani & Tilman Brück & Jeanne Pinay & Marco d'Errico, 2024. "Building Resilience in Conflict Areas: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Borno State in North-east Nigeria," HiCN Working Papers 419, Households in Conflict Network.
    2. Leight, Jessica & Hirvonen, Kalle & Zafar, Sarim, 2024. "The effectiveness of cash and cash plus interventions on livelihoods outcomes: Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis," OSF Preprints dnc2r, Center for Open Science.
    3. Abay, Kibrom A. & Abay, Mehari H. & Berhane, Guush & Chamberlin, Jordan, 2022. "Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).
    4. Ricardo Sibrian & Marco d’Errico & Patricia Palma de Fulladolsa & Flavia Benedetti-Michelangeli, 2021. "Household Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Central America and the Caribbean," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-30, August.
    5. Marco D’Errico & Assad Bori & Ana Paula de la O Campos, 2021. "Resilience and Conflict: Evidence from Mali," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-21, September.
    6. Oconnor, Christopher, 2024. "Do conditional cash transfers create resilience against poverty? Long-run evidence from Jamaica," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
    7. Ansah, Isaac Gershon K. & Kotu, Bekele Hundie & Manda, Julius & Muthoni, Francis & Azzarri, Carlo, 2023. "Mediation and moderation roles of resilience capacity in the shock–food-security nexus in northern Ghana," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 211(C).
    8. Alessandra Garbero & Marco Letta, 2022. "Predicting household resilience with machine learning: preliminary cross-country tests," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 63(4), pages 2057-2070, October.
    9. Roosa Lambin & Milla Nyyssölä & Alexis Bernigaud, 2022. "Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-82, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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