The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development 2013-2014, Evidence from Nepal

Nepal, 2013 - 2014

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Reference ID

NPL_2013-2014_ICTECD_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/r129-xg19

Producer(s)

Gayatri Acharya, Michael Levere, Prashant Bharadwaj

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jul 23, 2020

Last modified

Jul 23, 2020

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Identification

Survey ID number

NPL_2013-2014_ICTECD_v01_M

Title

The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development 2013-2014

Subtitle

Evidence from Nepal

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Nepal	NPL

Study type

Socio-Economic/Monitoring Survey [hh/sems]

Abstract

While substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at a global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. In this paper, using a randomized control trial design in Nepal, we evaluate a program that provided information on best practices about maternal and child health and nutrition, and cash to families in extremely poor areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of 2. We find significant and sizable impacts of the information plus cash intervention on maternal knowledge, behavior, child development, and nutrition. The size of these impacts along some measures of knowledge and development are significantly different from the information only intervention group suggesting a potential role for providing a short term cash safety net along with information to tackle the problem of malnutrition.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household
Individual

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The intervention was implemented in four food insecure districts in Nepal - Sarlahi, Rautahat, Sindhuli, and Ramechaap

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
Gayatri Acharya	The World Bank Group
Michael Levere	Mathematica Policy Research
Prashant Bharadwaj	University of California, San Diego

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name
The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

Detailed description of the experimental design is available in "The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Nepal", pp4-7

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The baseline, midline, and endline surveys were nearly identical, and each included three separate modules to measure information on the household, the eligible mother, and the eligible infant. The household component of the survey was intended to be answered by either the household head or eligible mother, and measured a household’s composition, assets, annual income, monthly expenditures, and daily food intake. The mother then answered questions about herself and her children, which measured her knowledge of maternal health and nutritional best practices and her actual behaviors with her youngest child while pregnant and breastfeeding. The survey concluded with anthropometric measurements of the child and a measure of cognitive development as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ).

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End	Cycle
2013-08	2013-10	Baseline
2014-08	2014-09	Midline
2014-11	2014-12	Endline

Data Collection Notes

Baseline data collection occurred in August-October 2013, prior to the start of the intervention. One fourth of counties were randomly assigned to be surveyed at midline in August-September 2014, with the remaining three-fourths surveyed at endline in November-December 2014. A total of 4,228 women and 3,695 children under two years old were surveyed at baseline. Of these, 3,152 women and 2,783 children were in the counties surveyed at endline, which will be primarily used in the analysis. After attrition and trimming outliers, the primary sample consists of 2,338 women and 1,953 children.

Depositor information

Depositor

Name	Affiliation
Alreena Renita Pinto	The World Bank Group

Data Access

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download.

Example:

Gayatri Acharya (The World Bank Group), Michael Levere (Mathematica Policy Research), Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California, San Diego). Nepal - The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development 2013-2014 (ICTECD 2013-2014). Ref : NPL_2013-2014_ICTECD_v01_M. Downloaded from (url) on (date).

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Gayatri Acharya	The World Bank Group	gacharya@worldbank.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_NPL_2013-2014_ICTECD_v01_M_WB

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank Group	Documentation of the DDI

Date of Metadata Production

2020-07-17

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (July 2020)

Version date

2020-07-17

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