Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232707 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13955
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained improvements in children's anthropometric and health outcomes, including an 8% reduction in stunting four years post-intervention. These impacts are partly driven by information-related channels. However, the certain and substantial flow of cash transfers is also key. They induce positive labor supply responses among women, and enables them to undertake productive investments in livestock. These provide protein rich diets for children, and generate higher household earnings streams long after the cash transfers expire.
Subjects: 
cash transfers
nutrition
JEL: 
I15
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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