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    In-Kind Transfer and Child Development: Evidence from Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia

    Gupta, Prachi; Huang, Bihong | March 2018
    Abstract
    In the aftermath of the Asian financial crises, the Indonesian government launched a subsidized rice program called RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been continued since then with an objective to provide food security to poor families and is currently the largest in-kind transfer in Indonesia. Using data from five rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) covering the period of 1993–2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children’s health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by various anthropometric measures. We further investigate the long-run gains from RASKIN by tracing the health status of children aged between 0 and 5 years old in 1993 and 1997 respectively until their adolescence/adulthood. We find evidence of improved anthropometric health outcomes for these children in later years. The gains are found to be higher for children who started receiving the subsidized rice in the early years of childhood.
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    Gupta, Prachi; Huang, Bihong. 2018. In-Kind Transfer and Child Development: Evidence from Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8110.
    Keywords
    World Health Organization
    Urban Health Services
    Rural Health Services
    Nutrition and Health Care
    Health Aspects of Poverty
    Health and Hygiene and the Poor
    Education, Health and Social Protection
    Access to Health Care
    Social Aspects Of Poverty
    Disease Control
    Occupational Hygiene
    Medical Services
    Health Costs
    Sanitation
    Diseases
    Water Quality
    Respiratory Diseases
    Health Indicators
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Cost of medical care
    Health status indicators
    Sanitation services
    Sickness
    Illness
    Prevention of disease
    Health status indicators
    Cost and standard of living
    disabilities
    Nutrition and state
    Food policy
    Nutrition policy
    Cost and standard of living
    Economic conditions
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    Gupta, Prachi
    Huang, Bihong
    Theme
    Health
    Poverty
    Labor Migration
     
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