Impact of Ethiopia's productive safety net program on household food security and child nutrition: A marginal structural modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: Safety nets are expanding in African countries as a policy instrument to alleviate poverty and food insecurity. Whether safety nets have improved household food security and child diet and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa has not been well documented. This paper takes the case of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and provides evidence of the impact of safety nets on household food security and child nutritional outcomes. Prior studies provide inconclusive evidence as to whether PSNP has improved household food security and child nutrition. These studies used analytical approaches that correct for selection bias but have overlooked the effect of time-varying confounders that might have resulted in biased estimation. Given that household food security status is both the criteria

SUBMITTER: Bahru BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511729 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature