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|a Jacoby, Hanan G.
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|a On Measuring The Benefits of Lower Transport Costs
|h Elektronische Ressource
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|a Washington, D.C
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|c 2008
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|a Transport Economics, Policy and Planning
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|a Transport infrastructure
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|a Transport Costs
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|a Road projects
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|a Rural infrastructure
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|a Rural roads
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|a Infrastructure investment
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|a High transport
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|a Transport
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|a Road improvement
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|a Road
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|a Minten, Bart
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|a Jacoby, Hanan G.
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|u http://elibrary.worldbank.org/content/workingpaper/10.1596/1813-9450-4484
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|a 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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