TY - JOUR
T1 - Social protection amidst social upheaval
T2 - Examining the impact of a multi-faceted program for ultra-poor households in Yemen
AU - Brune, Lasse
AU - Karlan, Dean
AU - Kurdi, Sikandra
AU - Udry, Christopher
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Nate Barker, Caton Brewster, Callan Corcoran, Sami Horn, Hideto Koizumi, and Lalchand Luhana for excellent research assistance, and Nathanael Goldberg and Rachel Strohm for research management. We thank in particular Matt Lowes for coordinating the field work and project management in Yemen. We also thank the Social Fund for Development and the Social Welfare Fund for their partnership (in particular Lamis Al-Iryani, Arafat Alsalhy, Osama Al Shami, and Doaa Bahubaish); Essam Al-Fadhli and Husam Al-Sharjabi from Apex Consulting; Aude de Montesquiou, Syed Hashemi, and Mohammed Khaled at CGAP for their collaboration on data collection on implementation, as well as the Ford Foundation (in particular, Frank deGiovanni) and the UK Department for International Development for funding support. IRB approval from Yale University #1006006972. All errors and opinions are our own.
Funding Information:
We thank Nate Barker, Caton Brewster, Callan Corcoran, Sami Horn, Hideto Koizumi, and Lalchand Luhana for excellent research assistance, and Nathanael Goldberg and Rachel Strohm for research management. We thank in particular Matt Lowes for coordinating the field work and project management in Yemen. We also thank the Social Fund for Development and the Social Welfare Fund for their partnership (in particular Lamis Al-Iryani, Arafat Alsalhy, Osama Al Shami, and Doaa Bahubaish); Essam Al-Fadhli and Husam Al-Sharjabi from Apex Consulting; Aude de Montesquiou, Syed Hashemi, and Mohammed Khaled at CGAP for their collaboration on data collection on implementation, as well as the Ford Foundation (in particular, Frank deGiovanni) and the UK Department for International Development for funding support. IRB approval from Yale University #1006006972. All errors and opinions are our own.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Social protection programs are needed more than ever during periods of social upheaval, but are also likely to be even harder to implement successfully. Furthermore, social upheaval makes measuring the impact of such policies all the more difficult. We study the impact of a multi-faceted social protection program, often referred to as a “Graduation” model program, in Yemen during a period of civil unrest. We are unable to measure outcomes for four years, thus much remains unknown about what transpired in the intermediary time. After four years we find positive impacts on savings behavior and asset accumulation, albeit substantially less than the amount the household originally received.
AB - Social protection programs are needed more than ever during periods of social upheaval, but are also likely to be even harder to implement successfully. Furthermore, social upheaval makes measuring the impact of such policies all the more difficult. We study the impact of a multi-faceted social protection program, often referred to as a “Graduation” model program, in Yemen during a period of civil unrest. We are unable to measure outcomes for four years, thus much remains unknown about what transpired in the intermediary time. After four years we find positive impacts on savings behavior and asset accumulation, albeit substantially less than the amount the household originally received.
KW - Conflict
KW - Poverty
KW - Social protection
KW - Transfer programs
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102780
DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102780
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121468976
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 155
JO - Journal of Development of Economics
JF - Journal of Development of Economics
M1 - 102780
ER -
