Rural Roads and Local Economic Development

被引：295

作者：

Asher, Sam ^{[1
]}

Novosad, Paul ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Johns Hopkins Univ, SAIS, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

[2] Dartmouth Coll, Hanover, NH 03755 USA

来源：

AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2020年 / 110卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSPORT COSTS; POVERTY; INFRASTRUCTURE; GROWTH; IMPACT; ELECTRIFICATION; INVESTMENT; RAILROADS; RESPONSES;

D O I：

10.1257/aer.20180268

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

020101 [政治经济学];

摘要：

Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to national paved road networks. We estimate the impacts of India's $40 billion national rural road construction program using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and comprehensive house-hold and firm census microdata. Four years after road construction, the main effect of new feeder roads is to facilitate the movement of workers out of agriculture. However, there are no major changes in agricultural outcomes, income, or assets. Employment in village firms expands only slightly. Even with better market connections, remote areas may continue to lack economic opportunities.

引用

页码：797 / 823

页数：27

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