Introduction
Lack of adequately paying jobs has become a major challenge in Afghanistan. In 2016–2017, according to Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey, 25% of the population were unemployed and 54% lived below the poverty line (
However, the prevalence of informal microenterprise is not unique to Afghanistan but common among the majority of developing countries (
In the last decade, through randomized experiments, a growing number of studies have indicated the strong and positive effect of cash grants on income growth and microenterprise activities in developing countries (
In this paper, we have analyzed the effects of receiving a non-trivial amount of cash grant in Afghanistan for individuals aged 18–35 on their income growth.Our study has several unique aspects. First, most previous studies with the same topic were conducted in relatively peaceful countries, except for post-conflict studies in Uganda by
