Joe Huston and Mike Cooke – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:24:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Joe Huston and Mike Cooke – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 What we’ve learned by comparing cash to job training https://www.givedirectly.org/hd-cash-benchmarking/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:45:16 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=3558 Is it better to spend funds on training young people or hand them the cash instead? Today, Craig McIntosh and Andy Zeitlin released the 18-month readout from our work hoping to help answer this question for a group of young people in Rwanda, using survey data collected pre-COVID. We’re grateful to our partners at USAID, Google.org, and EDC for their grit and boldness in making this project happen.

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]]> New research results: How do cash transfers impact the people who don’t receive them? https://www.givedirectly.org/how-do-cash-transfers-impact-neighbors/ Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:29:34 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=1057 EDIT: Researchers published an updated version of this study in November 2022 In 2014, GiveDirectly partnered with academic researchers to launch our largest study ever in Kenya. The ultimate goal: find out how cash transfers affect local economies, including nearby non-recipients, enterprises, and markets. Now, in 2019, the results of this research have been released.

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]]> What’s the best way to help the people who supply the things we buy every day? https://www.givedirectly.org/whats-the-best-way-to-help-the-people-who-supply-the-things-we-buy-every-day/ Fri, 03 May 2019 02:04:33 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/blog_post.php?id=4287237082890540884 Our latest research in 4 sentences: Over the course of 3 payments in 4 months, GiveDirectly delivered $1,000 to 3,415 households in coffee growing communities. One year later, we surveyed them to measure their economic well-being and coffee production. Recipients of the cash consumed more, earned more, had more assets, and greater food security. Also, coffee farmers invested more in their coffee…

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