ABSTRACT We examine the effect of the Zambia Child Grant Programme – an unconditional cash transfer (CT) targeted to rural households with children under age five – on height-for-age up to four years after programme initiation. The CT scheme had large positive effects on nutritional inputs like food expenditure and meal frequency, but no impact on child height-for-age. Production function estimates indicate that food carries little weight in the production of child height in the study sample. In settings with poor health infrastructure and harsh disease environments, a stand-alone CT is unlikely to address long-term chronic malnutrition unless accompanied by complementary interventions.

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有关现金转移和孩子身高之间关系的更多证据

摘要我们研究了赞比亚儿童补助金计划（针对有五岁以下儿童的农村家庭的无条件现金转移（CT））对计划启动后长达四年的身高年龄的影响。CT计划对诸如食物支出和进餐频率之类的营养投入具有很大的积极影响，但对儿童年龄段的身高没有影响。生产函数估计表明，在研究样本中，在身高儿童身高的生产中，食物的重量很小。在卫生基础设施差和疾病环境恶劣的环境中，除非有辅助干预措施，否则单独的CT不可能解决长期的慢性营养不良问题。