Livestock asset transfers with and without training: Evidence from Rwanda
Evidence from the Girinka (‘One Cow per Poor Family’) programme that has distributed 130,000 cows to the rural poor since 2006
Abstract
We present evidence from Rwanda’s Girinka (‘One Cow per Poor Family’) program that has distributed more than 130,000 livestock asset transfers in the form of cows to the rural poor since 2006. Supply side constraints on the program resulted in some beneficiaries receiving complementary training with the cow transfer, and other households not receiving such training with their cow. We exploit these differences to estimate the additional impact of receiving complementary training with the cow transfer, on household’s economic outcomes up to six years after having received the livestock asset transfer.
This is an output from the ‘Delivering Inclusive Financial Development and Growth’ project
Citation
Jonathan Argent, Britta Augsburg, Imran Rasul, Livestock asset transfers with and without training: Evidence from Rwanda, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 108, 2014, Pages 19-39,
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