ESSP Working Paper 125, by Kalle Hirvonen and John Hoddinott. Abstract: Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. We extend the classic Southworth (1945) framework to predict under what conditions this assumption holds. We take the model to longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Targeting Social Transfers in Pastoralist Societies: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme Revisited
ESSP Working Paper 124, by Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, John Hoddinott and Alemayehu S. Taffesse. Abstract: In the Ethiopian highlands, the PSNP is a successful social safety net intervention in terms of both targeting and impact. By contrast, existing studies situated in the country's lowland Afar and Somali regions suggest that PSNP targeting is beset >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
PSNP -HABP Final Report, 2014
This document summarizes material found in four documents prepared as part of the 2014 evaluation of the impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme,
Social protection, household size and its determinants: Evidence from Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 107, by John F. Hoddinott, Tseday J. Mekasha. Abstract: We examine the impact of a social protection program, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP),
