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The Effects of Transfers on Intra-household Time Allocation: Evidence from Northern Uganda
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The Effects of Transfers on
Intra-household Time Allocation:
Evidence from Northern Uganda
Luisa Natali
UNICEF Office of Research—Innocenti
What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children? International Conference
Kampala, 11th of September 2018
2. 2
Motivation & Background
• What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children?...
• Dammert et al. (2018), review of public policy on child labor, programs:
• household vulnerability & exposure to risk child work
• adult labour & entrepreneurial activities might child labour
• De Hoop et al (2017): Two UCTs in Malawi and Zambia, expansion in
household productive investments increased reliance on children work
• Existing literature on impacts of cash transfers:
•Baird et al. (2014) systematic review: Cash transfers typically increase child
schooling
•De Hoop & Rosati (2014) review: No detrimental effects on child work,
rather reductions
3. 3
Study objectives
• Test whether a food and cash transfer intervention in Karamoja
– targeted to households with young children and aimed at
increasing food security and early child development – affect
the intra-household allocation of time
• Focus on:
•Non-primary objectives
•Household members not explicitly targeted
•Intra-household dynamics
• ‘Functional targeting’
• Targeted to specific group/individuals within the household
• Certain activities are encouraged
4. 4
WFP food or cash transfers
• Overall Aim: Food security and early childhood development
• Target Group: households with children aged 3-5 years old enrolled
in UNICEF-supported community-run ECD centres (since 2007)
• Location: 3 districts of the Karamoja sub-region
• Transfers: Unconditional (with messaging/ ‘soft conditions’),
paid/provided every 6 weeks:
• Nutrition-dense take-home food ration, distributed by truck or
• Cash transfers, paid electronically to cards
• Transfer modalities were equivalent in value (roughly USD 12 per
eligible child over 6 weeks) = ~10% of pre-program average
consumption per month
• Recipient: Transfers provided preferentially to a woman in the
household
7. 7
Key features & timeline of the evaluation
• Stratified cluster randomized control trial run by IFPRI
• Longitudinal from 2010 to 2012
• Randomization at the ECD centre level
• 98 clusters randomly allocated to one of three arms:
1. Food arm (35 clusters)
2. Cash arm (31 clusters)
3. Control group (32 clusters)
Baseline data
collection
First food transfer First cash transfer Endline data
collection
Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June
2010 2011 2012
Main harvest Lean season Main harvest Lean season
8. 8
Existing evidence on program impacts
• Significant impacts of the cash transfer on primary objectives:
•Consumption and food security (Gilligan et al 2013, 2014)
•ECD and young children outcomes (Gilligan and Roy 2015)
• Overall lack of – or limited – impacts of food intervention
•Due to ineffectiveness or lack of enforcement/implementation
issues?
• In this presentation, focus on:
•Cash impacts
•Primary school-age children and prime-age adults
9. 9
Main outcome indicators by age group
Primary school-age children
(7-12 at baseline)
School outcomes
(currently enrolled, number of days
attended, school expenditure)
Activities & chores outcomes
Participation (1/0);
Average hours per day (logged)
Productive work, last 7 days
(looking after livestock, help with
agricultural work, wage work)
Reproductive work, last 7 days
(looking after younger children,
caring for sick household members,
doing other chores outside, or near
the home)
Prime-age adults
(18-59 at baseline)
Time use outcomes
In the last six months (participation)
worked in agriculture, looking after
livestock, wage work, non-agricultural
self-employment
In the last two weeks (average hours per
day, logged)
domestic work, income-earning
activities#, leisure activities#Any
work
10. 10
Main characteristics of sample at baseline
Mean
Household head
Age (years) 39.54
Female 0.11
Education: None 0.68
Marital status:
Never married 0.00
Polygamous 0.54
Monogamous 0.38
Divorced/separated 0.01
Widowed 0.07
Household level
Household size 6.32
Monthly consumption per capita,
('000 UGX)
31.14
Dwelling characteristics
Roof: Thatched/vegetable
matter/sticks
0.90
Floor: Cow dung/soil mix 0.77
Main source of lighting: Fire 0.83
Drinking water source:
Borehole, well, spring
0.87
Sanitation: No toilet 0.46
N 2,357
Presence of several
programmes in the study area:
• 83% of households received
assistance from at least one
programme
• No household was beneficiary of
any other cash transfer
intervention
Prime-age adults (past 6 months)
• 93% had worked in agriculture;
• 39% in wage work
• 27.5% in non-agricultural self-
employment
• 14% had spent some time looking
after livestock.
11. 11
Primary school-age children:
51 % currently enrolled and attend half of the days in which school is
open (48 per cent)
school expenditures per enrolled child in a year around UGX 5,744, or
roughly USD 2.5
Children’s outcomes at baseline
In the last 7 days:
88 per cent engaged in
domestic work; 5 hours
57 per cent engaged in
economic work; 1.5
hour
0
.1.2.3.4.5.6.7
7 8 9 10 11 12
Age (years)
School only School and work
Work only Idle
12. 12
Empirical strategy
• Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) model
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• Strata fixed effects; gender and age controls
• OLS with robust standard errors clustered at the level of
randomization (ECD centre)
• Results robust to different specifications, models and samples
• Account for multiple testing approach
•Adjust p-values using the Sidak-Bonferroni adjustment
13. 13
Validity of experimental setting
• Successful randomization:
•Baseline balance carried out on over 50 household key
characteristics and outcome variables
• Household attrition: 7.9%
• No significant differences between arms;
• No significant differential attrition
• Results robust to Lee bounds
15. 15
Primary school-age children (1/3)
No impact on schooling
Currently
enrolled
Number days
attended school
Education
expenditure,
logged
(1) (2) (3)
Food impact -0.02 -0.03 -0.49
(0.04) (0.04) (0.32)
Cash impact -0.02 -0.01 -0.08
(0.03) (0.03) (0.32)
R2 0.22 0.20 0.22
N 2,478 2,432 2,448
Baseline Control
mean
0.538 0.495 4.510
16. 16
Primary school-age children (2/3)
Positive impact on child productive work
Any work Productive work Reproductive work
Part.
(1/0)
Hours
(logged)
Part.
(1/0)
Hours
(logged)
Part.
(1/0)
Hours
(logged)
Food impact -0.02 -0.03 -0.03 -0.07 -0.02 -0.01
(0.02) (0.06) (0.05) (0.07) (0.02) (0.05)
Cash impact 0.03* 0.17*** 0.27*** 0.31*** 0.02 0.07
(0.02) (0.05) (0.05) (0.06) (0.02) (0.05)
R2 0.04 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.05 0.12
N 2,273 2,207 2,244 2,213 2,273 2,258
Baseline
control mean
0.929 1.858 0.613 0.712 0.896 1.635
17. 17
Primary school-age children (3/3)
…driven by positive impact on child agricultural work
Productive work
Last seven days
Looking after livestock
Helping with other
agricultural work on
own land
Doing wage work
Part.
(1/0)
Hours
(logged)
Part.
(1/0)
Hours
(logged)
Part.
(1/0)
Hours
(logged)
Food impact -0.02 -0.03 -0.02 -0.04 -0.00 -0.01
(0.02) (0.03) (0.05) (0.06) (0.02) (0.02)
Cash impact 0.02 0.02 0.29*** 0.31*** 0.01 -0.01
(0.02) (0.03) (0.05) (0.06) (0.02) (0.02)
N 2,256 2,256 2,267 2,267 2,224 2,224
Baseline control
mean
0.104 0.137 0.575 0.607 0.044 0.045
18. 18
Prime-age adults: positive impact on (agricultural)
work and time spent on income earning activities
In last six months… In last two weeks…
Worked in
agriculture
Spent time
looking after
livestock
Did work that
paid a salary
or wages
Non-agric. self-
employed
work
Domestic
work
Income-
earning
activities †
Leisure
activities†
Part.
(1/0)
Part.
(1/0)
Part.
(1/0)
Part.
(1/0)
Hours per
day
(logged)
Hours per
day
(logged)
Hours per
day
(logged)
Food impact 0.01 0.02 0.00 -0.00 -0.00 -0.02 -0.04
(0.03) (0.02) (0.03) (0.03) (0.03) (0.05) (0.03)
Cash impact 0.09*** -0.01 0.00 -0.00 0.03 0.25*** -0.02
(0.03) (0.02) (0.03) (0.03) (0.03) (0.04) (0.03)
R2 0.06 0.08 0.03 0.07 0.38 0.11 0.15
N 4,401 4,387 4,391 4,395 4,402 4,399 4,371
Baseline (•)
control mean
0.929 0.161 0.380 0.278 1.363 1.266• 1.165•
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Mechanisms: Impact on land investments
Any investment on land
(1/0)
Food impact 0.006
(0.044)
Cash impact 0.117***
(0.044)
R2 0.06
N 2,357
Baseline control mean 0.548
• No impact on irrigation, crop patterns, livestock or productive
assets.
• No data on agricultural input use, etc.
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Summary
• Positive impact of the cash transfer on
•Investments in land
•Adults’ participation in agriculture
•Children’s involvement in productive activities – mainly agricultural
• No significant impact on schooling outcomes
No ‘laziness’ or
welfare dependency
• How to reconcile results with cash transfer literature?
•Transfers not high enough to offset opportunity cost (de Hoop and Rosati, 2014;
Dammert et al., 2018)
•Sufficient excess capacity to accommodate additional students
•Perceived returns to education -> under-investment in schooling?
•Parents value on-the-job-learning
•Importance of context
No impact on
long-working
hours
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Research & Policy Implications
• For a comprehensive child impact assessment: broader
indicators of child well-being & further info on type of work;
long-term
• More research to understand the level of cash transfer needed
to improve schooling and work outcomes
• How to better design programmes – apart from conditionalities
or larger transfers – to encourage human capital investment
overall for the household, without children engaging in
hazardous labour?
• Cash plus?
• Invest in sensitization/communication
• Closely monitor possible unintended impacts on child labour
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• Transfer Project website: www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/transfer
• Briefs: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/transfer/publications/briefs
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TransferProject
• Twitter: @TransferProjct email: lnatali@unicef.org
For more information
Ghana, credit: Ivan Griffi
Thank you!
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References
Dammert, A.C., J. de Hoop, E. Mvukiyehe, and F.C. Rosati (2018). Effects of Public Policy
on Child Labor: Current Knowledge, Gaps, and Implications for Program Design. World
Development, 110: 104-123.
• Gilligan, D., A. Margolies, E. Quiñones, and S. Roy (2013). WFP/UNICEF/IFPRI Impact
Evaluation of Cash and Food Transfers at Early Childhood Development Centers in
Karamoja, Uganda: Final Impact Report. Submitted to: World Food Programme, Rome;
World Food Programme, Kampala; and UNICEF, Kampala, May 2013.
• Gilligan, D.O., M. Hidrobo, J. Hoddinott, S. Roy, and B. Schwab (2014). Much Ado about
Modalities: Multicountry Experiments on the Effects of Cash and Food Transfers on
Consumption Patterns. IFPRI Conference Paper, International Food Policy Research
Institute.
• Gilligan, D. O. and S. Roy (2015). Resources, Stimulation, and Cognition: How Transfer
Programs and Preschool Shape Cognitive Development in Uganda, IFPRI Conference
Paper, International Food Policy Research Institute.
De Hoop, J., Groppo, V., and S. Handa on behalf of the Malawi SCTP and Zambia MCTG
study teams (2017) Household Micro-entrepreneurial Activity and Child Work: Evidence
from Two African Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs, Presented at NEUDC 2017.
• De Hoop, J., and F.C. Rosati (2014). Cash Transfers and Child Labor. The World Bank
Research Observer, 29: 202–34.