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100			_aAsher, Sam and Novosad, Paul _918646
245			_aRural roads and local economic development
260			_aThe American Economic Review
300			_a110(3), Mar, 2020: p.797-823
520			_aNearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to national paved road networks. We estimate the impacts of India's 40 billion USD national rural road construction program using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and comprehensive household and firm census microdata. Four years after road construction, the main effect of new feeder roads is to facilitate the movement of workers out of agriculture. However, there are no major changes in agricultural outcomes, income, or assets. Employment in village firms expands only slightly. Even with better market connections, remote areas may continue to lack economic opportunities. – Reproduced
650			_aRoad maintenance, Transportation planning, Agricultural labor markets, Rural development _918612
773			_aThe American Economic Review
906			_aTRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS
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