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Zambia’s Child Grant Programme: 24-month impact report on productive activities and labour allocation

Zambia country case study report

Year of publication 2014

Pages 44 p.

Author Daidone, S.;Davis, B.;Dewbre, J.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This report uses data from a 24-month randomized experimental design impact evaluation to analyse the impact of the Zambia Child Grant Programme (CGP) on individual and household decision making including labour supply, the accumulation of productive assets and other productive activities. The general framework for empirical analysis is based on a comparison of programme beneficiaries with a group of controls interviewed before the programme began and again two years later, using both single and double difference estimators. The findings reveal overall positive impacts of the CGP across a broad spectrum of outcome indicators and suggest that the programme is achieving many of its intended objectives. Specifically, we find strong positive impacts on household food consumption and investments in productive activities, including crop and livestock production. The programme is associated with large increases in both the ownership and profitability of non-farm family businesses; reductions in household debt levels; increases in household savings; and concordant shifts in labour supply from agricultural wage labour to better and more desirable forms of employment. The analysis reveals important heterogeneity in programme impacts, with estimated magnitudes varying over household and individual characteristics.

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