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...
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2008/01/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS4484
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs
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transport cost