Title
Impact of the Juntos conditional cash transfer program on nutritional and cognitive outcomes in Peru: Comparison between younger and older initial exposure
Date Issued
01 April 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
University of Chicago Press
Abstract
We evaluate whether the Juntos conditional cash transfer program in Peru has a larger effect on children who benefited initially from the program during the first 4 years of life compared with those children who benefited initially between ages 5 and 8. The former group was exposed during early-life sensitive periods, received the program for a longer period, and received more growth monitoring sessions and vaccinations. We find that exposure to Juntos led to an improvement in nutritional status and in cognitive achievement, both of which were greater, but only the latter was significant for those initially exposed during the first 4 years of life.
Start page
865
End page
897
Volume
68
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Nutrición, Dietética
Demografía
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85076396978
Source
Economic Development and Cultural Change
ISSN of the container
00130079
Sponsor(s)
This article—an updated version of the working paper “Impact of Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Nutritional and Cognitive Outcomes in Peru: Does the Age of Exposure Matter?”—is based on data from the Young Lives study, which is core-funded by UK aid from the Department for International Development and was cofunded from 2010 to 2014 by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Young Lives has also received funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. We thank Catherine Porter and two anonymous reviewers for providing very helpful comments on an earlier version of the project. Jere Behrman thanks for partial support the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD070993, “Growth Recovery, Schooling and Cognitive Achievement: Evidence from Four Cohorts,” June 15, 2012– May 31, 2017). Data are provided through Dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6NSLTP). Contact the corresponding author, Alan Sánchez, at asanchez@grade.org.pe.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD070993, “Growth Recovery, Schooling and Cognitive Achievement: Evidence from Four Cohorts,” June 15, 2012–May 31, 2017).
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