Harris-Fry Helen, Saville Naomi M, Paudel Puskar, Manandhar Dharma S, Cortina-Borja Mario, Skordis Jolene
Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.
UCL Institute for Global Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK.
J Dev Econ. 2021 Nov 11;154:102784. doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102784. eCollection 2022 Jan.
We estimate the effects of antenatal food and cash transfers with women's groups on household allocative behaviour and explore whether these effects are explained by intergenerational bargaining among women. Interventions were tested in randomised-controlled trial in rural Nepal, in a food-insecure context where pregnant women are allocated the least adequate diets. We show households enrolled in a cash transfer intervention allocated pregnant women with 2-3 pp larger shares of multiple foods (versus their mothers-in-law and male household heads) than households in a control group. Households in a food transfer intervention only increased pregnant women's allocation of staple foods (by 2 pp). Intergenerational bargaining power may partly mediate the effects of the cash transfers but not food transfers, whereas household food budget and nutrition knowledge do not mediate any effects. Our findings highlight the role of intergenerational bargaining in determining the effectiveness of interventions aiming to reach and/or empower junior women.
我们评估了通过妇女团体进行的产前食品和现金转移对家庭分配行为的影响，并探讨这些影响是否可以通过妇女之间的代际讨价还价来解释。在尼泊尔农村地区粮食不安全的背景下进行了随机对照试验，在这种背景下，孕妇获得的饮食最不充足。我们发现，与对照组家庭相比，参与现金转移干预的家庭分配给孕妇的多种食物份额比其婆婆和男性户主高出2-3个百分点。仅参与食品转移干预的家庭仅增加了孕妇主食的分配（增加了2个百分点）。代际讨价还价能力可能部分介导了现金转移的效果，但不是食品转移的效果，而家庭食品预算和营养知识并未介导任何效果。我们的研究结果突出了代际讨价还价在确定旨在惠及和/或增强年轻女性权能的干预措施有效性方面的作用。
