Adaptive Safety Net Project - Psychosocial Study 2018-2022 Niger

As part of the Adaptive Safety Net Project, the Government of Niger (with support from the World Bank and the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program) launched the implementation of productive inclusion measures to foster more productive livelihoods and improve resilience of cash transfer beneficiary households.

This deposit includes data from individual-level surveys (intervention timepoint and endline timepoint) and administrative data from an embedded experiment on single-session agency interventions within the Full and Psychosocial arms of the trial reported in the following paper: Bossuroy, Thomas; Goldstein, Markus; Karimou, Bassirou; Karlan, Dean; Kazianga, Harounan; Pariente, William; Premand, Patrick; Thomas, Catherine; Udry, Christopher; Vaillant, Julia; Wright, Kelsey. 2022. "Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints Opens Pathways out of Poverty". It also includes ancillary data with predictions from a U.S. sample on women’s models of agency in Niger. These two datasets are published along with the related paper: Thomas, C.C., Premand, P., Bossuroy, T., Sambo, A. S., Markus, H.R., & Walton, G.W. 2025. “How Culturally Wise Interventions Can Help Reduce Poverty.”