Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund
The Armenian Social Investment Fund supports communities' efforts to improve local infrastructure during Armenia's economic transition away from central planning, financing community-designed and -implemented projects to rehabilitate prim...
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okr-10986-172042021-04-23T14:03:29Z Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund Chase, Robert S. BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS BIASES CENTRAL AUTHORITIES CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY PROJECTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EMPLOYMENT FEMALE HOMES HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLDS IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH INCLUSION INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS JOBS REHABILITATION REHABILITATIONS ROADS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SANITATION SCHOOL SERVICE SCHOOL SERVICES SCHOOLS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIETIES SOCIETY URBAN AREAS WASTE WATER SUPPLY The Armenian Social Investment Fund supports communities' efforts to improve local infrastructure during Armenia's economic transition away from central planning, financing community-designed and -implemented projects to rehabilitate primary schools, water systems, and other infrastructure. This article considers the targeting, household impact, and community effects of the social fund's activities. It relies on a nationally representative household survey, oversampled in areas where the social fund was active. Using propensity and pipeline matching techniques to control for community self-selection into the social fund, it evaluates the household effects of rehabilitating schools and water systems. The results show that the social fund reached poor households, particularly in rural areas. Education projects increased households' spending on education significantly and had mild effects on school attendance. Potable water projects increased household access to water and had mild positive effects on health. Communities that completed a social fund project were less likely than the comparison group to complete other local infrastructure projects, suggesting that social capital was expended in these early projects. By contrast, communities that joined the social fund later and had not yet completed their projects took more initiatives not supported by the social fund. 2014-03-04T17:26:29Z 2014-03-04T17:26:29Z 2002-05 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/17741846/supporting-communities-transition-impact-armenian-social-investment-fund-impact-evaluation-social-funds World Bank Economic Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17204 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Europe and Central Asia Armenia |
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BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS BIASES CENTRAL AUTHORITIES CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY PROJECTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EMPLOYMENT FEMALE HOMES HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLDS IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH INCLUSION INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS JOBS REHABILITATION REHABILITATIONS ROADS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SANITATION SCHOOL SERVICE SCHOOL SERVICES SCHOOLS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIETIES SOCIETY URBAN AREAS WASTE WATER SUPPLY |
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BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS BIASES CENTRAL AUTHORITIES CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY PROJECTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION LEVELS EMPLOYMENT FEMALE HOMES HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION HOUSEHOLDS IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH INCLUSION INTERVENTION INTERVENTIONS JOBS REHABILITATION REHABILITATIONS ROADS RURAL AREAS RURAL COMMUNITIES SANITATION SCHOOL SERVICE SCHOOL SERVICES SCHOOLS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL FUNDS SOCIETIES SOCIETY URBAN AREAS WASTE WATER SUPPLY Chase, Robert S. Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund |
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The Armenian Social Investment Fund
supports communities' efforts to improve local
infrastructure during Armenia's economic transition
away from central planning, financing community-designed and
-implemented projects to rehabilitate primary schools, water
systems, and other infrastructure. This article considers
the targeting, household impact, and community effects of
the social fund's activities. It relies on a nationally
representative household survey, oversampled in areas where
the social fund was active. Using propensity and pipeline
matching techniques to control for community self-selection
into the social fund, it evaluates the household effects of
rehabilitating schools and water systems. The results show
that the social fund reached poor households, particularly
in rural areas. Education projects increased
households' spending on education significantly and had
mild effects on school attendance. Potable water projects
increased household access to water and had mild positive
effects on health. Communities that completed a social fund
project were less likely than the comparison group to
complete other local infrastructure projects, suggesting
that social capital was expended in these early projects. By
contrast, communities that joined the social fund later and
had not yet completed their projects took more initiatives
not supported by the social fund. |
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Chase, Robert S. |
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Chase, Robert S. |
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Chase, Robert S. |
| title |
Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund |
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Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund |
| title_full |
Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund |
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Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund |
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Supporting Communities in Transition : The Impact of the Armenian Social Investment Fund |
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supporting communities in transition : the impact of the armenian social investment fund |
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Washington, DC: World Bank |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/17741846/supporting-communities-transition-impact-armenian-social-investment-fund-impact-evaluation-social-funds http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17204 |
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