Medium-Term Impacts of Integrated Social Safety Nets: Cash Transfers, Information Meetings, and Home Visits for Child Development

The evaluation was funded by the World Bank Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund trust fund (SIEF). The research protocol received IRB clearance (IRB Protocol #14156) from the Institutional Review Board at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and from the Burkina Faso National IRB (“Comité d’Ethique”). The project was registered with the AEA RCT Registry (RCT ID: AEARCTR-0002897). We are grateful for the collaboration with Victoria Monchuk, Rebekka Grun, Matthieu Lefebvre, and Julian Koschorke at the World Bank in setting up this evaluation and with IPA Burkina Faso for the data collection. We thank Daniel Halim, Sen Ma, Dan Maggio, and Mahounan Yedomiffi, as well as seminar participants at NEUDC, the World Bank Development Economics Research Group, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Institute for Economic and Social Research Jinan University, Paris School of Economics, the World Bank East Asia & Pacific Chief Economist Research Center, CSAE, Nordic Conference in Development Economics, 24th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, International Population Conference, International Health Economics Association Congress, and the European Economic Association Congress for helpful comments. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, the countries they represent, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• randomized controlled trials registry entry