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Do Social Safety Net Programs Increase Calorie Intake in Bangladesh? Evidence from Household Survey Data

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dc.contributor.author Md. Al-Hasan
dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-20T06:57:38Z
dc.date.available 2018-02-20T06:57:38Z
dc.date.issued 2017-09-26
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu/handle/2525/2525
dc.description This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Social Science in Economics of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. en_US
dc.description.abstract Do Social Safety Net (SSN) programs increase household’s calorie consumption? To answer this question, we employ Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2010 data from Bangladesh covering 12241 households. Our overall result is that the SSN programs do not significantly affect household’s calorie consumption especially for the people whose calorie consumption is lower than required. This finding remains robust even after matching for economic and demographic factors. These results are not surprising since the SSN programs are highly fragmented and emerge as a somewhat ad hoc fashion to meet the needs of an ongoing economic or social crisis caused by an exogenous shock. This paper also finds that income is not robustly related to calorie consumption but living area and household’s size are strongly linked to calorie consumption. JEL Classification: H 55, C21, C31, H31 en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;ECO00008
dc.subject Social Safety Net, Calorie Consumption, Treatment Effect Model, Household Behavior en_US
dc.title Do Social Safety Net Programs Increase Calorie Intake in Bangladesh? Evidence from Household Survey Data en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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