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Original language | English |
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Article number | 104909 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | World Development |
Volume | 129 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2020 |
JEL classifications
- f35 - Foreign Aid
- i30 - Welfare and Poverty: General
Keywords
- Aid effectiveness
- Chinese aid
- DHS
- Geocoded data
- Household welfare
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- aid flow
- demographic survey
- development aid
- health survey
- numerical model
- project management
- social development
- welfare provision
- COUNTRIES
- RISK
- EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT
- ADJUSTMENT
- INFERENCE
- WEALTH
- DEVELOPMENT AID
- FOREIGN-AID
- WORLD
- STRATIFICATION
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T1 - Chinese development assistance and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa
T2 - World Development
AU - Martorano, B.
AU - Metzger, L.
AU - Sanfilippo, M.
N1 - Export Date: 13 March 2020 Correspondence Address: Martorano, B.; Maastricht University and UNU MERITNetherlands; email: [email protected] Funding details: Università degli Studi Roma Tre Funding details: Universität Zürich, UZH Funding text 1: We would like to thank two anonymous referees, Samuel Brazys, Axel Dreher, Isabel G?nther, Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Brad Parks, Finn Tarp and participants to a workshop at Heidelberg University, the 2nd UNU-MERIT Internal Conference in Maastricht, to the Annual International Conference of the German Economic Association Research Group on Development Economics at the University of Zurich, to the ASSET Conference in Florence, to the GdS meeting at the University of Roma Tre and to the Nordic Conference on Development Economics 2019 for useful comments and discussions. We also thank Agata Elia, Francesco Iacoella and Ilari M??tt? for excellent research assistance. 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PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - We study the impact of Chinese aid on household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa by combining data on Chinese development projects with data from Demographic and Health Surveys. Using difference-indifferences estimations and a matching technique, we analyze the effect of Chinese aid on three social development outcomes: education, and child health and nutrition. We find that Chinese aid projects improve education and child mortality in treatment areas but have no effects on child nutrition. A sectoral analysis further reveals that social sector projects successfully improve households' health and education. Improvements in these outcomes may additionally be driven indirectly by a positive effect of Chinese aid on economic welfare in treatment areas. Regarding the distribution and scale of Chinese projects we find that our results hold for lower treatment intensity levels only, suggesting a non-linear effect of Chinese aid.
AB - We study the impact of Chinese aid on household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa by combining data on Chinese development projects with data from Demographic and Health Surveys. Using difference-indifferences estimations and a matching technique, we analyze the effect of Chinese aid on three social development outcomes: education, and child health and nutrition. We find that Chinese aid projects improve education and child mortality in treatment areas but have no effects on child nutrition. A sectoral analysis further reveals that social sector projects successfully improve households' health and education. Improvements in these outcomes may additionally be driven indirectly by a positive effect of Chinese aid on economic welfare in treatment areas. Regarding the distribution and scale of Chinese projects we find that our results hold for lower treatment intensity levels only, suggesting a non-linear effect of Chinese aid.
KW - Aid effectiveness
KW - Chinese aid
KW - DHS
KW - Geocoded data
KW - Household welfare
KW - Sub-Saharan Africa
KW - aid flow
KW - demographic survey
KW - development aid
KW - health survey
KW - numerical model
KW - project management
KW - social development
KW - welfare provision
KW - COUNTRIES
KW - RISK
KW - EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT
KW - ADJUSTMENT
KW - INFERENCE
KW - WEALTH
KW - DEVELOPMENT AID
KW - FOREIGN-AID
KW - WORLD
KW - STRATIFICATION
U2 - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104909
DO - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104909
M3 - Article
SN - 0305-750X
VL - 129
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
M1 - 104909
ER -