TY - JOUR
T1 - Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19
T2 - Experimental evidence from Kenya
AU - Brooks, Wyatt
AU - Donovan, Kevin
AU - Johnson, Terence R.
AU - Oluoch-Aridi, Jackline
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks to conference and seminar participants at the Central Bank of Chile, the PEGNet-DIE Workshop on Social Protection During Pandemics, and Yale University for a number of useful comments. We are grateful to the Ford Family Program at the University of Notre Dame and J-PAL's Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (Grant #JOI-1375) for funding and to Brian Ambutsi for his excellent work managing the project in the field. This project was approved by the IRBs of Strathmore University and Yale University, along with the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) in Kenya. AEA RCT Registry ID: AEARCTR-0005704.
Funding Information:
Thanks to conference and seminar participants at the Central Bank of Chile, the PEGNet-DIE Workshop on Social Protection During Pandemics, and Yale University for a number of useful comments. We are grateful to the Ford Family Program at the University of Notre Dame and J-PAL’s Jobs and Opportunity Initiative (Grant # JOI-1375 ) for funding and to Brian Ambutsi for his excellent work managing the project in the field. This project was approved by the IRBs of Strathmore University and Yale University , along with the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) in Kenya . AEA RCT Registry ID: AEARCTR-0005704 .
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya, arriving just in advance of an exponential growth in COVID-19 cases. Relative to a control group, firms recoup about one third of their initial decline in profit, and food expenditures increase. Control profit responds to economic conditions and government announcements during our study period, and treatment effects are largest when control profit is at its lowest. PPE spending and precautionary management practices increase to mitigate the health risks of more intensive firm operation, but only among those who perceive COVID-19 as a major risk.
AB - We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya, arriving just in advance of an exponential growth in COVID-19 cases. Relative to a control group, firms recoup about one third of their initial decline in profit, and food expenditures increase. Control profit responds to economic conditions and government announcements during our study period, and treatment effects are largest when control profit is at its lowest. PPE spending and precautionary management practices increase to mitigate the health risks of more intensive firm operation, but only among those who perceive COVID-19 as a major risk.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Cash transfers
KW - Microenterprises
KW - Women
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102929
DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102929
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133910534
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 158
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
M1 - 102929
ER -