tailieunhanh - AN IMPACT EVALUATION OF EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND WATER SUPPLY INVESTMENTS BY THE BOLIVIAN SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND

Schools reported the manner in which their nutrition education efforts are coordinated by a person or group. The majority of public schools (61 percent) have no nutrition education coordination, meaning each teacher is responsible for his or her nutrition lessons (table 6). About 9 percent of the schools have one person within the school coordinating nutrition education; 24 percent coordinate using a group or committee; and about 6 percent have someone outside the school, for example from the district, coordinate nutrition education. Coordination from outside the school is more likely for elementary schools (8 percent) compared with middle schools (3 percent), and. | the world bank economic review vol. 16 no. 2 241-274 Impact Evaluation of Social Funds An Impact Evaluation of Education Health and Water Supply Investments by the Bolivian Social Investment Fund John Newman Menno Pradhan Laura B. Rawlings Geert Ridder Ramiro Coa and Jose Luis Evia This article reviews the results of an impact evaluation of small-scale rural infrastructure projects in health water and education financed by the Bolivian Social Investment Fund. The impact evaluation used panel data on project beneficiaries and control or comparison groups and applied several evaluation methodologies. An experimental design based on randomization of the offer to participate in a social fund project was successful in estimating impact when combined with bounds estimates to address noncompliance issues. Propensity score matching was applied to baseline data to reduce observable preprogram differences between treatment and comparison groups. Results for education projects suggest that although they improved school infrastructure they had little impact on education outcomes. In contrast interventions in health clinics perhaps because they went beyond simply improving infrastructure raised utilization rates and were associated with substantial declines in under-age-five mortality. Investments in small community water systems had no major impact on water quality until combined with community-level training though they did increase the access to and the quantity of water. This increase in quantity appears to have been sufficient to generate declines in under-age-five mortality similar in size to those associated with the health interventions. This article provides an overview of the results of an impact evaluation study of the Bolivian Social Investment Fund sif and the methodological choices and John Newman is Resident Representative with the World Bank in Bolivia Menno Pradhan is with the Nutritional Science Department at Cornell University and the Economics Department at