When researchers controlled for demographic differences between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, the differences in diet quality disappeared.
Impact Evaluation Report External Evaluation of the Mchinji Social Cash Transfer Pilot 2008 - The main objective of the report is to better understand the impact of the CTS by assessing differences between beneficiary households and non-recipient households.
However, any residual differences between the beneficiary and non-beneficiary groups could bias the results.
Propensity score methods are based on an important assumption that outcomes are independent of program participation conditional on a set of observable characteristics and that there are no systematic differences in unobserved characteristics (e.g., motivation, risk aversion) between beneficiary and non-beneficiary groups which in turn may create selection bias.
Differences between beneficiaries of ecosystem services are only discussed in a few studies, and only in relation provisioning services.
Here, a binary variable that describes beneficiaries of the FHCI captures the treatment effect as the difference in outcomes between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries.
Among older children between the ages of 7-17 years (n = 517), who are not required to meet the health conditionalities, there were no significant differences in physical health summary scores between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, but beneficiaries had significantly better psychosocial health summary scores (β = 2.6; p = 0.007) (Table 4).
Therefore, this study compared the differences between medical aid beneficiaries and NHIC beneficiaries and aimed to reveal the net effect of the copayment waiver policy on children.
Second, the international humanitarian community has positioned itself as the white, western, heroic protector of vulnerable women and girls (and not men and boys)—a narrative that not only escalates power differences between humanitarian and beneficiary but also reproduces the subordination of women.
