Evaluating the Impact of Infrastructure Rehabilitation Projects on Household Welfare in Rural Georgia

The authors evaluate the effect of various community level infrastructure rehabilitation projects undertaken in rural Georgia on household well-being. Their analysis is based on combining household and community level survey data. The authors' empirical approach uses the panel structure of the...

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Hauptverfasser:	Lokshin, Michael, Yemtsov, Ruslan
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS BENEFICIARIES CLINICS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY BASED DISTRIBUTION COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE CONTROL GROUPS COUNTERFACTUAL DISTRICTS ECONOMICS EMPLOYMENT EXPENDITURES EXTREME POVERTY HEALTH STATUS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS HOUSEHOLDS IMPACT ASSESSMENT IMPACT EVALUATION IMPACT INDICATORS INCOME INCOME INEQUALITY INFANT MORTALITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS INTERVENTION LIVELIHOOD LIVING STANDARDS MANAGERS MARKETING MORTALITY OUTCOME INDICATORS OUTPUT INDICATORS PARENTS POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMS POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT EVALUATION PROJECT OBJECTIVES PUPILS ROADS RURAL AREAS RURAL CONDITIONS RURAL POPULATION SANITATION SCHOOLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS SECTORAL ALLOCATION SELECTION BIAS SOCIAL SERVICES TARGETING TREATMENT GROUPS URBAN AREAS VILLAGES WATER SUPPLY WELFARE ECONOMICS WORKERS WORKERS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
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Zusammenfassung:	The authors evaluate the effect of various community level infrastructure rehabilitation projects undertaken in rural Georgia on household well-being. Their analysis is based on combining household and community level survey data. The authors' empirical approach uses the panel structure of the data to control for time-invariant un-observables at the community level by applying propensity-score-matched double difference comparison. The results indicate that improvements in school and road infrastructure produce nontrivial welfare gains for the poor at the village and country levels. The impact of water rehabilitation projects is ambiguous. School rehabilitation projects produce the largest gains for the poor. The methodological lesson from this analysis is that ad hoc community surveys matched with ongoing nationally representative surveys can provide a feasible and low cost impact evaluation tool.