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  • Titel: On Measuring the Benefits of Lower Transport Costs
  • Beteiligte: Jacoby, Hanan G. [Verfasser:in]; Minten, Bart [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Erschienen: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2016]
  • Erschienen in: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, Vol. , pp. -, 2008
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
  • Sprache: Englisch
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  • Beschreibung: Despite large amounts invested in rural roads in developing countries, little is known about their benefits. This paper derives an expression for the willingness-to-pay for a reduction in transport costs from the canonical agricultural household model and uses it to estimate the benefits of a hypothetical road project. Estimation is based on novel cross-sectional data collected in a small region of Madagascar with enormous, yet plausibly exogenous, variation in transport cost. A road that essentially eliminated transport costs in the study area would boost the incomes of the remotest households-those facing transport costs of about USD 75/ton-by nearly half, mostly by raising non-farm earnings. This benefit estimate is contrasted to one based on a hedonic approach
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