Combining Longitudinal Household and Community Surveys for Evaluation of Social Transfers: infrastructure rehabilitation projects in rural Georgia

Michael Lokshin and Ruslan Yemtsov

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2004, vol. 5, issue 2, 265-277

Abstract: This paper combines longitudinal household and community level survey data to evaluate the effect of infrastructure rehabilitation projects on household well-being in rural Georgia. The panel structure of the data is utilized in an empirical approach to control for time-invariant unobservable factors at the community level by applying propensity score-matched double difference comparison. The results indicate that improvements in school and road infrastructure produce non-trivial gains on village and country levels. School rehabilitation projects produce the largest gains for the poor, while the road projects benefit the poor and non-poor in different aspects of well- being. From a methodological point of departure it is concluded that ad hoc community surveys matched with ongoing nationally representative longitudinal household surveys can provide a feasible and low-cost tool for evaluation of the effectiveness of social transfers.

Keywords: Longitudinal surveys; Propensity score-matched double difference comparisons; Effectiveness of social transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/1464988042000225168

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