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Payment modality preferences: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme

Payment modality preferences: Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme PDF Author: Hirvonen, Kalle
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. We extend the classic Southworth (1945) framework to predict under what conditions this assumption holds. We take the model to longitudinal household data from Ethiopia where a large-scale social safety net intervention – the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) – operates. Even though most PSNP payments are paid in cash, and even though the (temporal) transaction costs associated with food payments are higher than payments received as cash, the overwhelming majority of the beneficiary households prefer their payments only or partly in food. However, these preferences are neither homogeneous nor stable. Higher food prices induce shifts in preferences towards in-kind transfers, but more food secure households and those closer to food markets and to financial services prefer cash. There is suggestive evidence that preferences for food are also driven by self-control concerns.