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Abstract
Social protection plays crucial roles in the response of rising food prices. It helps
households to maintain access to food and other basic needs, leading to an
increase in food and nutrition security, and ultimately prevent an increase in
poverty. In this paper, we evaluate the relative and multiple overlapping effects of
two main social protection programs in Indonesia, namely Conditional Cash
Transfer (CCT) and in-kind transfer/Subsidized Rice Program (Raskin), on food
and nutrition security indicators. Using panel data from household surveys which
recorded both CCT and Raskin recipient status, we estimate the impact of CCT
and Raskin on food and nutrition security using both Inverse Probability
Weighting models and conventional regression method. We find that CCT had a
much greater impact on food and nutrition security. However, the multipletreatment
effect between CCT and Raskin is not significantly different from zero.
Thus, it is important to re-formulate these two overlapping policies.