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

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'...

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Main Authors: Lokshin, Michael, Yemtsov, Ruslan
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
ADMINISTRATIVE REGIONS
BENEFICIARIES
CLINICS
COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE
CONTROL GROUPS
COUNTERFACTUAL
DISTRICTS
ECONOMICS
EMPLOYMENT
EXPENDITURES
EXTREME POVERTY
HEALTH STATUS
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 POPULATION
SANITATION
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SELECTION BIAS
SOCIAL SERVICES
TARGETING
TREATMENT GROUPS
URBAN AREAS
VILLAGES
WATER SUPPLY
WORKERS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS
RURAL CONDITIONS
COMMUNITY BASED DISTRIBUTION
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
WELFARE ECONOMICS
SECTORAL ALLOCATION
WORKERS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/10/2778676/evaluating-impact-infrastructure-rehabilitation-projects-household-welfare-rural-georgia
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18048
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Summary: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.

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