+ Nutrition and preventive health care of beneficiary households
   greatly improved, both in terms of quality and quantity
+ Significant improvements in cognitive development outcomes of
   young children, in particular language and social-personal skills.
+  Increases in school enrollment and attendance rates of children
   between the ages of 6 to 15 years
+ Asset creation, new income generating choices in non-farm and
   livestock activities among beneficiary households
+  Risk management and risk coping: beneficiary households are
   less likely to use adverse coping mechanisms to address shocks,
   and use more ex-ante risk management instruments
+  Aspiration gains
+  Social spillover effects

"Before the program, I just thought about working in order to eat from day to day. Now I think about working in order to move forward through my business. Through experiences, one learns and opens up towards the future. By talking to others, one understands and learns."

- Beneficiary of business grant

More details on the empirical results can be found in the technical papers below. In addition, a report with the full set of results from the impact evaluation at the 9^th month will be shortly available here.

References

Macours, K., and R. Vakis, 2008." Changing households’ investments and aspirations through social interactions: Evidence from a randomised transfer program in a low-income country" Mimeo, Johns Hopkins University and World Bank.

Macours, K., N. Schady and R. Vakis, 2008. “Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and the Cognitive Development of Young Children: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment"  Mimeo, Johns Hopkins University and World Bank.