Working paper
The importance of being early: anticipatory cash transfers for flood-affected households
- Abstract:
- We evaluate the effect of a cash transfer to households forecast to experience extreme flooding in Bangladesh five days before the flood peak based on hydrological modelling. We find that this ‘anticipatory’ transfer improved welfare during and three months after the flooding, reduced asset loss and supported early recovery. Early cash also increased the choice set of actions available to households, thereby altering the flood impacts at a critical time juncture. Benefits accrue in the months before a conventional humanitarian response, highlighting the gains from acting early. Acting one day earlier near the flood peak is welfare improving.
- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- Centre for the Study of African Economies
- Article number:
- 2021-07
- Series:
- CSAE Working Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2024-07-17
- Paper number:
- 2021-07
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1173972
- Local pid:
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pubs:1173972
- Deposit date:
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2021-04-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Pople et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021, The Author(s).
- Notes:
- This paper was originally available from 29/04/2021 as "Anticipatory cash transfers in climate disaster response".
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