Prevalence of obesity is rising in Latin America and increasingly affecting socially disadvantaged groups, particularly women. Conditional cash transfers are recently established welfare interventions in the region. One, Familias en Accion, transfers ∼20% of average monthly income to women in Colombia's poorest families. Previous work has found that families buy more food as a result. We tested the hypothesis that participation in Familias would be associated with increasing body mass index (BMI) in participating women.
Authors
Orazio Attanasio
CPP Co-Director
Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Michael Marmot
UCL Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
I. Forde
S. Garcia
Journal article details
- Publisher
- International Journal of Obesity, Nature
- Issue
- September 2012
Suggested citation
Attanasio, O et al. (2012). 'The impact of cash transfers to poor women in Colombia on BMI and obesity: prospective cohort study' (2012)
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