The Benefits of India's Rural Roads Program in the Spheres of Goods, Education and Health : Joint Estimation and Decomposition

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dc.creatorBell, Clive
dc.date2012-12-21T20:02:46Z
dc.date2012-12-21T20:02:46Z
dc.date2012-08
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dc.descriptionAll-weather rural roads usually improve not only villagers' terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Obtaining empirical estimates of the benefits generated by the first is straightforward, not so those generated by the others. The object of this paper is to estimate the relative sizes of their respective contributions to total benefits in connection with the all-India rural roads program Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, using an overlapping generations model featuring the production and consumption of goods and the formation of human capital in the presence of both morbidity and mortality. Based on survey evidence from upland Orissa in India and Bangladesh, as well as elements of more usual forms of calibration, the model yields a ratio of commercial to non-commercial benefits of about two-to-one in the first generation, falling to three-to-four in the second. This is broadly consistent with the valuations expressed by respondents in the Orissa survey, who ranked the latter benefits at least on a par with the former.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/08/16603488/benefits-indias-rural-roads-program-spheres-goods-education-health-joint-estimation-decomposition
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/12007
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-6169
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/414298
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research working paper;no. 6169
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectADULTHOOD
dc.subjectAGE-GROUP
dc.subjectAGED
dc.subjectAGGREGATE SUPPLY
dc.subjectALGORITHM
dc.subjectBENCHMARK
dc.subjectCAPITAL FORMATION
dc.subjectCHILD MORBIDITY
dc.subjectCLINICS
dc.subjectCONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE
dc.subjectCONSUMERS
dc.subjectDEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subjectDIMINISHING RETURNS
dc.subjectDISCOUNT RATE
dc.subjectECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectEMPIRICAL BASIS
dc.subjectENDOGENOUS VARIABLES
dc.subjectEQUIVALENT VARIATION
dc.subjectEXOGENOUS VARIABLES
dc.subjectEXPECTED RETURNS
dc.subjectEXPECTED UTILITY
dc.subjectEXPENDITURES
dc.subjectFAMILIES
dc.subjectFATALITY
dc.subjectFATALITY RATES
dc.subjectFORECASTS
dc.subjectFUNCTIONAL FORMS
dc.subjectGROWTH RATE
dc.subjectHEALERS
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE
dc.subjectHOSPITALS
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCREASE IN MORTALITY
dc.subjectINJURY
dc.subjectINSPECTION
dc.subjectLIVING STANDARDS
dc.subjectMACROECONOMICS
dc.subjectMEDICAL TREATMENT
dc.subjectMORBIDITY
dc.subjectMORTALITY
dc.subjectMORTALITY RATE
dc.subjectOLDER CHILDREN
dc.subjectOPPORTUNITY COST
dc.subjectOPPORTUNITY COSTS
dc.subjectOVERLAPPING GENERATIONS MODEL
dc.subjectPOLITICAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectPREMATURE DEATH
dc.subjectPRESENT VALUE
dc.subjectPRIVATE GOODS
dc.subjectPRODUCERS
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectPURCHASING POWER
dc.subjectROAD
dc.subjectROUTE
dc.subjectRURAL ROADS
dc.subjectSIBLINGS
dc.subjectSOCIAL NORMS
dc.subjectTERMS OF TRADE
dc.subjectTRANSFER PAYMENTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORT
dc.subjectTRANSPORT COSTS
dc.subjectTRANSPORTATION
dc.subjectTRIP
dc.subjectTRIP TIME
dc.subjectUTILITY FUNCTION
dc.subjectUTILITY FUNCTIONS
dc.subjectVALUE OF OUTPUT
dc.subjectWAGE DIFFERENTIALS
dc.subjectWAGE RATES
dc.subjectWILLINGNESS TO PAY
dc.subjectYOUNG ADULT
dc.subjectYOUNG ADULTS
dc.titleThe Benefits of India's Rural Roads Program in the Spheres of Goods, Education and Health : Joint Estimation and Decomposition

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