Evaluation report
Factors influencing grant continuity and well-being outcomes for child grant beneficiaries
Debbie Budlender ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study follows children who received South Africa's Child Support Grant (CSG) from 2008 to 2017, examining how the grant affects child well-being outcomes. The research compares outcomes between children who received the grant continuously, those who never received it, and those whose grant status changed over the nine-year period. The study builds on earlier cross-sectional analysis by tracking the same children over time to understand how grant continuity influences child outcomes.
Key points
- Longitudinal analysis of children under 8 years old in 2008, followed through to 2017
- Compares well-being outcomes between grant recipients and non-recipients with comparable characteristics
- Examines changes in grant receipt status over nine years to assess impact of grant continuity
- Builds on earlier 2017 CSDA research using NIDS 2008 data
- Recognizes that intervention impact may differ based on length of time receiving the grant
Limitations
The document does not provide actual findings, outcomes, or effect sizes; it only describes the study's methodology and research questions. Without access to the full results, we cannot determine what impact the CSG has on child well-being.
Abstract
In 2017 the CSDA released a research report entitled "Family Contexts, the Child Support Grant, and Child Well-Being Outcomes" which included analysis of the NIDS 2008 data focusing on children under the age of 8 years old who received a CSG. This study builds on the earlier one. However, instead of the cross-sectional snapshot analysis, it investigates the situation for the same children nine years later, as reflected in the 2017 NIDS survey. In addition to the descriptive analysis of child recipients of the CSG provided in the earlier study, this new study explores the extent to which there are differences in outcomes between children who receive and do not receive the grant but are comparable in other respects. It also explores the extent to which the status of individual children changes between 2008 and 2017 in respect of receipt of the CSG i.e. to what extent children who were receiving the CSG in 2008 are no longer receiving it in 2017 and vice versa. This question is important as one would expect the impact to differ depending on the length of time over which the CSG was received.
Findings the Hub has extracted
Each claim below is labelled by its type of design and links back to this report.
- Intervention
- Child Support Grant (CSG) - a cash transfer programme
- Population
- Children under 8 years old in South Africa, tracked from 2008 to 2017
Key finding
Study tracks grant receipt changes between 2008 and 2017 to examine continuity effects