ABSTRACT

Around the world, there has been an exponential growth in cash-based programmes as part of social policies. Innovative payment mechanisms, such as mobile money, could have benefits for recipients. An experimental study suggests that the use of mobile money, Zap delivery, might improve intra-household socio-economic dynamics on Niger. Our replication study evaluates the impact of Zap delivery in contrast to more traditional delivery mechanism. We examined original author´s findings and estimated similar results about increasing household diet diversity without decreasing their durable and nondurable assets. The heterogeneity evaluation by age groups suggests that the Zap delivery had a different impact on older beneficiaries than younger ones. In addition, we evaluated the robustness, which considers multiple imputation and Lee bounds analysis; as well as a nutritional evaluation of children under 5 years using anthropometric measures.

摘要

在全球范围内，作为社会政策一部分的基于现金的计划呈指数增长。创新的支付机制（例如移动货币）可以为接收者带来好处。一项实验研究表明，使用移动货币Zap交付可能会改善尼日尔家庭内部的社会经济动态。我们的复制研究评估了Zap传递与更传统的传递机制相比的影响。我们检查了原始作者的发现，并估计了有关增加家庭饮食多样性而不减少其持久性和非持久性资产的类似结果。按年龄组进行的异质性评估表明，Zap交付对年长受益人的影响与对年青受益人的影响不同。此外，我们评估了稳健性，其中考虑了多重插补和Lee边界分析。