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 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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Lokshin, Michael, Yemtsov, Ruslan
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2003-10
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/18048
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