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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
Producer(s)
Gayatri Acharya, Michael Levere, Prashant Bharadwaj
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Jan 19, 2021
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  • Identification
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Depositor information
  • Data Access
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  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • 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
    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

    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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