Intervention(s)
All households in the study are recipients of a 6-month long cash transfer program. Households are divided across three treatments:
- Control (or "Cash Only"): Households receive the cash transfer ‘as is’, in one envelope.
- MA: Same as control; in addition, households are offered the opportunity to decide, at baseline, whether they would like to receive future monthly cash transfers in four labelled envelopes (labelled ‘education’, ‘health’, ‘investment’, and ‘other’), or one envelope (status quo). If they opt for the four labelled envelopes, the household is asked how they would like to divide the cash they receive across the four envelopes; all future cash will then be allocated accordingly.
- MAD: Identical to MA, except that households are shown a recommendation of the allocation across the four envelopes, developed by the Uganda Humanitarian Cash Working Group, if they opt for the four envelopes instead of one. Households can either accept this recommendation across the four labelled envelopes, or adjust it as they wish.