TAILIEUCHUNG - THE SHORT-TERM IMPACT OF A CONDITIONAL CASH SUBSIDY ON CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN COLOMBIA

As the authors state in their introduction, family mealtimes may initially seem to be an unlikely topic for a publication that aims to present research information relevant to pending social policy. However, this paper convincingly argues that there is more than meets the eye in regard to the topic’s relevance to policy. First, Fiese and Schwartz clearly portray the importance of family mealtimes to child health and well-being. They explore frequency, climate and family food choices as aspects of the phenomenon. They examine a variety of social changes, including an increase in other options such as eating in. | The Short-Term Impact of a Conditional Cash Subsidy on Child Health and Nutrition in Colombia Orazio Attanasio Luis Carlos Gomez Patricia Heredia Marcos Vera-Hernández EDePo Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies the institute for fiscal studies report Summary Familias 03 The short-term impact of a conditional cash subsidy on child health and nutrition in Colombia Orazio Attanasio University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies Luis Carlos Gomez Econometría Consultores Patricia Heredia Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar Marcos Vera-Hernández University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies December 2005 1. Introduction Conditional cash transfer CCT programmes are becoming an extremely popular policy for improving the education and health outcomes of poor children in developing countries. CCT programmes aim to increase human capital investment among poor households in order to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Countries in which they are being implemented under the support of the World Bank and other international financial institutions include Mexico Honduras Nicaragua Brazil Turkey and Mozambique. While the implementation details vary from country to country many of the programmes are modelled on the Mexican PROGRESA. In the typical CCT mothers receive cash transfers if their school-age children attend This report is a summary of the health and nutrition component of the report Evaluación del Impacto del Programa Familias en Acción - Subsidios Condicionados de la Red de Apoyo Social. Informe del Primer Seguimiento Bogotá carried out by a consortium consisting of Econometría Consultores the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Sistemas Especializados de Información. 1 school and preventive healthcare visits. The targeting of children s health and education is the essence of the long-term poverty alleviation objective of CCT programmes. Such transfer programmes are also aimed at the short-term reduction of .

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