Evaluating the Impact of Infrastructure Rehabilitation Projects on Household Welfare in Rural Georgia
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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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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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, IMPACT EVALUATION, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE INDICATORS, RURAL CONDITIONS, COMMUNITY BASED DISTRIBUTION, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, WELFARE ECONOMICS, SECTORAL ALLOCATION, WORKERS