ECON 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Great Green Wall, Food Security, Water Security
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Can a bus ticket end seasonal hunger for the poorest families? . Experiment: testing if a small financial incentive will make workers migrate to the city to pursue jobs, payment of , but it is enough to offset risk of travelling for the extreme poor. No lean season reduces the negative effects of seasonality on the poorest in rural agricultural areas by enabling labor mobility that increases income. Increase migration in same season: households receiving a migration subsidy were 61% mor likely to migrate than comparable households. Increase consumption: migrant households registered higher household expenditures and an increase in over 700 calories consumed per day an amount equivalent to an extra meal per person/per day during the lean season. Results and how the randomization was done extent to which migration and consumption of nutritious food increased. Testing at scale is important: scale brings the opportunity and the responsibility to question and to learn.
