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

Md. Al-Hasan

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