Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Martorano, Bruno
Author-Email: martorano@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Author-Name: Metzger, Laura
Author-Email: laura.metzger@nadel.ethz.ch
Author-Workplace-Name: ETH Zürich, Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
Author-Name: Sanfilippo, Marco
Author-Email: marco.sanfilippo@uniba.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Bari, Italy and IOB, University of Antwerp
Title: Chinese development assistance and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract: By combining geocoded project-level data on Chinese development assistance 
	 with geocoded household-level data from the Demographic and Health 
	 Survey (DHS), we investigate the effect of Chinese project assistance on 
	 household welfare in 13 sub-Saharan African countries. We exploit the 
	 geographic proximity of household clusters across two different DHS 
	 survey waves (before and after the influx of Chinese aid) and use a 
	 difference-in-difference design in order to investigate the impact of 
	 Chinese aid on households' wealth and education. Our results 
	 consistently point to an overall positive effect of Chinese project 
	 assistance on household welfare: areas that receive Chinese projects are 
	 more likely to be wealthier, stay in school longer, and achieve a higher 
	 educational attainment than areas which did not receive such projects. 
	 Results are robust to various alternative model specifications.
Classification-JEL: F35, O19, R20
Keywords: OECD-DAC, Aid Allocation, aid effectiveness, China, Africa, emerging donors,
	 project level, household welfare, DHS, geocoded data
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20180221
Number: 2018-012
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2018/wp2018-012.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2018012