How does India’s rural roads program affect the grassroots?: findings from a survey in upland Orissa
This paper analyzes the effects of all weather rural roads on households’ net output prices, education, and health in a poor region of India. Cross-section and before-and-after comparisons yield these findings: (1) net output prices were 5% or more higher; (2) fewer days of schooling were lost due t...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Land economics
Year: 2014, Volume: 90, Issue: 2, Pages: 372-394 |
| ISSN: | 1543-8325 |
| DOI: | 10.3368/le.90.2.372 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.3368/le.90.2.372 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://le.uwpress.org/content/90/2/372 
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| Author Notes: | Clive Bell, and Susanne van Dillen |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes the effects of all weather rural roads on households’ net output prices, education, and health in a poor region of India. Cross-section and before-and-after comparisons yield these findings: (1) net output prices were 5% or more higher; (2) fewer days of schooling were lost due to bad weather, largely because teachers had fewer absences; (3) the acutely sick received timelier treatment and more frequently in a hospital than the nearest primary clinic; and (4) respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of health and education at least as highly as the “commercial” ones. (JEL O12, O18) |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 11.09.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1543-8325 |
| DOI: | 10.3368/le.90.2.372 |