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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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| Udgivet i: | Land economics 90(2014), 2, Seite 372-394 |
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| Format: | Online Resource Article |
| Sprog: | English |
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2014
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| Online adgang: | lizenzpflichtig lizenzpflichtig |
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Land economics Erscheint auch als: How does India's rural roads program affect the grassroots? |
| Forfatter Kommentarer: | 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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| Emne beskrivelse: | Gesehen am 11.09.2020 |
| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 23 |
| ISSN: | 1543-8325 |