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Evaluating water- and health related development projects: A cross-project and micro-based approach

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  • Christina Greßer
  • David Stadelmann

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We present a new micro-based approach to evaluate the effect of water- and health-related development projects. We collect information from 1.8 million individuals from DHS clusters (Demographic and Health Surveys) in 38 developing economies between 1986 and 2017. By geocodes, we combine cluster information with over 14,000 sub-national projects from the World Bank. We then investigate the impact of the projects employing fixed-effects estimation techniques. Our findings indicate that the time to gather water and child mortality tend to decrease when projects are realized. The quality of drinking water and sanitation facilities are positively affected too by projects. Our data allows us to account for cluster heterogeneity, which is a significant extension to the cross-country literature. Robustness checks, covering data and methodological refinements, supports our main findings.

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  • Christina Greßer & David Stadelmann, 2019. "Evaluating water- and health related development projects: A cross-project and micro-based approach," CREMA Working Paper Series 2019-06, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
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    Cited by:

    1. Cruzatti C., John & Dreher, Axel & Matzat, Johannes, 2023. "Chinese aid and health at the country and local level," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    2. Cohen, Isabelle, 2023. "Crowd in or crowd out? The subnational fiscal response to aid," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).

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    Keywords

    Evaluation; development projects; drinking water; sanitation; child mortality;
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    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O22 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Project Analysis
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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