On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs (English)

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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Jacoby,Hanan G.;

Minten,Bart J.;
Document Date
2008/01/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS4484
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs
Keywords
transport cost

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Jacoby,Hanan G.; Minten,Bart J..

On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4484 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/846451468139207638

On measuring the benefits of lower transport costs (English)

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