TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Tembo, Gelson
A1  - Freeland, Nicholas
A1  - Chimai, Bernadette
A1  - Schüring, Esther
T1  - Social Cash Transfers and Household Welfare: Evidence from Zambia's Oldest Scheme
JF  - Applied Economics and Finance
N2  - Social cash transfers (SCTs) are considered a priority in least-developed countries, where the gap between the need for basic social protection and existing provisions is greatest. This study represents one of the first comprehensive treatments of the impact of social cash transfers in low-income sub-Saharan Africa, and the first for Zambia's oldest SCT scheme. The results, based on propensity score matching and fully efficient odds-weighted regression, and data from the Kalomo SCT pilot scheme, confirm positive SCT effects on per capita consumption expenditure. We also discover threshold effects with SCT mostly impacting food expenditure among poorer beneficiary households and non-food expenditure among wealthier beneficiaries.
KW  - Social cash transfers
KW  - impact
KW  - consumption expenditure
KW  - propensity score matching
KW  - odds-weighted regression
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-50148
SN  - 2332-7308
SS  - 2332-7308
U6  - https://doi.org/10.11114/aef.v1i1.354
DO  - https://doi.org/10.11114/aef.v1i1.354
VL  - 1
IS  - 1
SP  - 13
EP  - 26
S1  - 14
PB  - Redfame Publishing
ER  -