Description: Grandmothers and Granddaughters : Old-Age Pensions and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa

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Grandmothers and Granddaughters : Old-Age Pensions and Intrahousehold Allocation in South Africa

This article evaluates the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on children's nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact. In the early 1990s the benefits and coverage of the S...

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Main Author:	Duflo, Esther
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO RESOURCES ADOLESCENCE ADULTS CHILD HEALTH CHILD LABOR CHILD NUTRITION CHILD WELFARE CHILDHOOD CHRONIC DISEASE CORRUPTION EARLY CHILDHOOD EXTENDED FAMILIES FAMILIES FAMILY BACKGROUND FEMALE GENDER GENDERS GENERATIONS GIRLS HEALTH CARE HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLD FORMATION HUMAN GROWTH HUSBANDS INEQUALITY INFANTS INFECTIONS MIGRANT WORKERS NUCLEAR FAMILIES NUTRITION NUTRITIONAL STATUS OLD AGE OLDER CHILDREN OLDER GIRLS PARENTAL EDUCATION PARENTS PENSION PENSIONS PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE RESIDENCE SEX SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL SECURITY UNEMPLOYMENT WILL WIVES WOMAN WORKERS YOUNG GIRLS YOUNG MOTHER YOUNG WOMAN YOUNGER GIRLS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17741855/grandmothers-granddaughters-old-age-pensions-intra-household-allocation-south-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17173

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Summary:	This article evaluates the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on children's nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that impact. In the early 1990s the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population. In 1993 the benefits were about twice the median per capita income in rural areas. More than a quarter of black South African children under age five live with a pension recipient. Estimates suggest that pensions received by women had a large impact on the anthropometric status (weight for height and height for age) of girls but little effect on that of boys. No similar effect is found for pensions received by men. This suggests that the efficiency of public transfer programs may depend on the gender of the recipient.