Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal
This paper investigates the impact of Family ecurity Grants, a form of cash transfer, training, and linkage to income-generating opportunities, on household food consumption in Senegal. Our focus is on daily meal intake, a key indicator of household welfare. Employing a fuzzy regression discontinuit...
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| description | This paper investigates the impact of Family ecurity Grants, a form of cash transfer, training, and linkage to income-generating opportunities, on household food consumption in Senegal. Our focus is on daily meal intake, a key indicator of household welfare. Employing a fuzzy regression discontinuity design as an identification strategy, our results consistently reveal a significant increase in food consumption among households receiving these grants. This aligns with the program's overarching goals of alleviating food insecurity, eliminating hunger and poverty, and enhancing overall household well-being. The findings of this paper carry significant implications for policymakers, suggesting the need to broaden the program's reach to encompass a more substantial number of households and consider increasing grant amounts to strengthen its impact. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ce124eb4637246a08e4974fcc9ef4c6b2025-08-20T03:53:56ZengElsevierScientific African2468-22762025-06-0128e0275510.1016/j.sciaf.2025.e02755Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegalMussa Deme0Ghulam Dastgir Khan1Md Abdul Bari2Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan; Corresponding author at: Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-5-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, 739-8529.The IDEC Institute and the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-5-1, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, JapanGraduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi- Hiroshima, JapanThis paper investigates the impact of Family ecurity Grants, a form of cash transfer, training, and linkage to income-generating opportunities, on household food consumption in Senegal. Our focus is on daily meal intake, a key indicator of household welfare. Employing a fuzzy regression discontinuity design as an identification strategy, our results consistently reveal a significant increase in food consumption among households receiving these grants. This aligns with the program's overarching goals of alleviating food insecurity, eliminating hunger and poverty, and enhancing overall household well-being. The findings of this paper carry significant implications for policymakers, suggesting the need to broaden the program's reach to encompass a more substantial number of households and consider increasing grant amounts to strengthen its impact.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227625002248Family security grantHouseholdMeal intakeRegression discontinuity designSenegal |
| spellingShingle | Mussa Deme Ghulam Dastgir Khan Md Abdul Bari Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal Scientific African Family security grant Household Meal intake Regression discontinuity design Senegal |
| title | Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal |
| title_full | Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal |
| title_fullStr | Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal |
| title_short | Impact of family security grants on household meal intake: Empirical evidence from senegal |
| title_sort | impact of family security grants on household meal intake empirical evidence from senegal |
| topic | Family security grant Household Meal intake Regression discontinuity design Senegal |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227625002248 |
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