This research project represents the first baseline
\nsocioeconomic survey that CDRI has conducted for the Greater Mekong Sub-region
\nTransmission Project of Asian Development Bank. The study was designed to
\ndevelop a set of comprehensive baseline demographic, social and economic as
\nwell as energy consumption indicators for the project. The tools for data collection
\nwere village and household surveys in 27 villages, of which 17 villages are
\npotentially project beneficiaries (treatment group) and 10 are
\nnon-beneficiaries (control group). It then used propensity score matching
\nmethod to predict the probability of household participation (propensity score)
\nin the two groups. From the matching operation, it produces favourable results
\nfor consumption, male adults\u2019 study time, and family and children\u2019s teaching
\ntime, while total income differences of households in the two groups, and
\nincome from sources such as crops, common property resources, labour wage and
\nremittance remain statistically significant, albeit reduced. This indicates
\nthat after controlling for household and village characteristics, households in
\nthe control and treatment groups have similar consumption behaviour, total
\nspending and time allocation for reading and teaching at home. Although the
\nmatching operation could not produce better results in terms of household
\nincome from different sources, the median bias of the matching operation has
\nbeen reduced substantially. <\/p>\n
The propensity score matching analysis enables us to see if
\ngood matches for the treatment households can be found in the comparison
\nsub-sample, and to consider the possibility of dropping some of the comparison
\nhouseholds (those with highly different characteristics) from any follow-up
\nsurvey. After matching, 35 households, which were off-support, were dropped creating
\nthe new sample of 709 reduced from 744. For follow-up evaluation study, the
\nresearch team should refer to after-match sample villages as the study site and
\nit is hoped that the survey costs could be reduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This research project represents the first baseline socioeconomic survey that CDRI has conducted for the Greater Mekong Sub-region Transmission Project of Asian Development Bank. The study was designed to develop a set of comprehensive baseline demographic, social and economic as well as energy consumption indicators for the project. The tools for data collection were village and household surveys in 27 villages, of which 17 villages are potentially project beneficiaries (treatment group) and 10 are non-beneficiaries (control group). It then used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33095","publications","type-publications","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n