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" Water Effectiveness and Targeting: "
Berger, David Richard
Miguel, Edward
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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915862
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TL9mf8436s
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Berger, David Richard
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Water Effectiveness and Targeting:\ Berger, David RichardMiguel, Edward
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UC Berkeley
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2017
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2017
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Developing countries have long relied on foreign aid and international NGOs to providesupplemental public goods such as communal drinking water points. Exploitinga geospatial dataset of water projects in Uganda, I consider both eectiveness andtargeting of projects. To evaluate eectiveness as practiced at scale, I use a retrospectivedesign that links placement of water projects with Demographic andHealth Survey (DHS) clusters, nding that over a ve year span, protected sourcesproduce statistically signicant improvement of weight-for-age, height-for-age, fever,and hemoglobin levels, but not of weight-for-height and diarrhea. In exploring povertytargeting, I link water data with spatial poverty data and argue for a relativetargeting measure that compares dierent entity types to one another in terms ofhow progressive their allocation of projects is. Finally, I use a similar procedure toanalyze placement in terms of its correlation with election outcomes.
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Miguel, Edward
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UC Berkeley
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