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Draft in review. Please do not cite without permission from author. TITLE The impact of the Social Cash Transfer Scheme on food security in Malawi AUTHORS Candace M. Miller, ScD1 Maxton Tsoka, MEcon2,3 Kathryn Reichert, MPH1,4 Author affiliations 1 Boston University School of Public Health, Center for International Health and Development, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Crosstown 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118 2 University of Malawi, Centre for Social Research, Zomba, Malawi 3 University of York, York, UK 4 Management Sciences for Health, Cambridge, MA Corresponding Author Candace Miller, Assistant Professor, (Candace@) WORD COUNT 5934 Draft in review. Please do not cite without permission from author. 1 The impact of the Social Cash Transfer Scheme on food security in Malawi ABSTRACT The Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS) was launched in 2006 to improve food security by directly providing cash transfers to the country’s most destitute households. Although government implemented social transfer schemes have gained popularity throughout Latin America, these schemes are just emerging in Africa. Consequently, while where there is evidence of the beneficial impact of cash transfers on food security from Latin American countries, there is a dearth of evidence from resource poor countries in Africa. In order to fill this gap, we conducted a longitudinal, randomized community control study of the pilot SCTS in Mchinji, Malawi from March 2007 to April 2008 with a panel of intervention and comparison households. In this study, we describe the impact of approximately US$14 per month on food security among recipient households compared to control households using indicators of food consumption and expenditures, dietary diversity, and food stores. We present compelling evidence, whereby each of the tested outcomes yields large effect sizes that are highly statistically significant, demonstrating the impressive impact of c