Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126662 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9563
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Billions of dollars have been spent on participatory development programs in the developing world. These programs give community members an active decision-making role. Given the emphasis on community involvement, one might expect that the effectiveness of this approach would depend on communities' pre-existing social capital stocks. Using data from a large randomised field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital built toilets and reduced open defecation, resulting in substantial health benefits. In villages with low initial stocks of social capital, the approach was counterproductive – fewer toilets were built than in control communities and social capital suffered.
Subjects: 
participatory development
social capital
sanitation
economic development
Indonesia
JEL: 
O12
O22
I15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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