Rural Roads and Local Economic Development

Asher, Sam; Novosad, Paul

doi:10.1257/aer.20180268

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“…Using the construction of a network of new highways to connect the new capital of Brasilia, Brazil, as a natural experiment, Morten and Oliveira (2019) find that roads promoted internal migration in Brazil. Asher and Novosad (2020) also find changes in mobility and occupational choice in rural India associated with lastmile road connections to villages, identified by applying a regression discontinuity design to data on a massive village road building program. The lack of good transportation infrastructure is, in short, not just a barrier to trade in goods but to movements of workers internally.…”

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Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World

Lagakos¹,

Marshall²,

Mobarak³

et al. 2020

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Recent studies find that observational returns to rural-urban migration are near zero in three developing countries. We revisit this result using panel tracking surveys from six countries, finding higher returns on average. We then interpret these returns in a multi-region Roy model with heterogeneity in migration costs. In the model, the observational return to migration confounds the urban premium and the individual benefits of migrants, and is not directly informative about the welfare gain from lowering migration costs. Patterns of regional heterogeneity in returns, and a comparison of experimental to observational returns, are consistent with the model's predictions.

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Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World

Lagakos¹,

Marshall²,

Mobarak³

et al. 2020

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“…In the first step, we randomize the arrival of e-commerce across 100 villages in 3 provinces and 8 counties, and use our survey microdata to estimate the 7 In this way we relate but also differ from existing literature on the effects of transport cost reductions on rural markets (e.g. Van de Walle (2009); Casaburi et al (2013); Asher & Novosad (2018)) and on the effects of the internet on rural markets (e.g. Chapman & Slaymaker (2002); Goyal (2010); Forman et al (2012); WB (2016)).…”

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Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China

Couture

Faber

Gu³

et al. 2018

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This paper estimates the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies, we find little evidence for income gains to rural producers and workers. Instead, the gains are driven by a reduction in cost of living for a minority of rural households who tend to be younger, richer and in more remote markets. These effects are mainly due to overcoming logistical barriers to e-commerce, rather than to additional investments to adapt e-commerce to the rural population.

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“…Lei et al (2017) highlight the importance of rural roads for female employment. Studying the impact of rural road scheme in India, Asher and Novosad (2018), however, caution against assuming road construction, that is, reduction in geographic distance, as the only form of required rural investment. They show that road construction in India led to a 10 percentage point decrease in the share of agricultural workers at the expense of a similar increase in wage labor.…”

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Rural Livelihood Challenges: Moving out of Agriculture

Pingali

Aiyar

Abraham

et al. 2019

Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy

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In this chapter, we deliberate upon the role of the non-farm sector in the food systems. We argue that livelihood diversification in rural India would lead to an overall economy-wide increase in productivity, and facilitate swifter structural transformation and poverty reduction. We highlight the role of the non-farm sector for job creation in rural areas, especially along the rural-urban continuum for structural transformation to take place. Policy has not yet leveraged the potential of small towns and the peri-urban spaces as a means to create new job opportunities. We focus on these blurring of the rural-urban distinction which provide an opportunity to diversify the portfolio of economic opportunities available to rural households, thereby enabling greater rural income and improved access to food and nutrition.

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Rural Roads and Local Economic Development

Cited by 315 publications

References 74 publications

Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World

Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World

Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China

Rural Livelihood Challenges: Moving out of Agriculture

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