Rural Roads and Intermediated Trade: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Sierra Leone (IGC Working Paper)

By L. Casaburi, R. Glennerster, Tavneet Suri. 2012

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Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India (2021, background): “advice services (Cole and Fernando, 2016), with mixed success. While the role of infrastructure as a barrier in take up has been discussed in this literature - Suri (2011) attributes the high costs of (6)See Feder et al. (1985) for a survey of barriers to technology adoption in agriculture in low-in”
Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “…willingness to pay for agricultural households (Jacoby and Minten, 2009), complementarities with agricultural productivity gains (Gollin and Rogerson, 2014), search and competition among agricultural traders (Casaburi et al., 2013), and agricultural productivity and crop choice (Sotelo, 2016).”
The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 (2020, background): “Finally, a smaller literature has emphasized the specific role of road quality, which is the main source of variation in this work (e.g. Casaburi et al., 2013; Gertler et al., 2015; Asher and Novosad, 2020).”
Do China's high-speed-rail projects promote local economy?—New evidence from a panel data approach (2017, methodology): “Other complementary approaches include natural experiment, the Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) approach, and the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method (e.g. Donaldson, 2015; Casaburi et al., 2013; van de Walle & Mu, 2007).”
Competition and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (2020, background): “4In a quasi-experimental variant of this literature, Casaburi, Glennerster and Suri (2013) find that expansion of the road network in Sierra Leone led to price decreases that can be best explained under a search cost framework, and which are inconsistent with either Bertrand competition or Cournot o”
Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “In a similar vein, Casaburi et al. (2013) argue that the incidence of the benefits of rural road rehabilitation programs depends on the competitive structure of local markets.”
Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (2017, unknown): “(7)Some examples include Jacoby (2000); Jacoby and Minten (2009); Gibson and Olivia (2010); Mu and van de Walle (2011); Casaburi et al. (2013); Donaldson and Hornbeck (2016); Donaldson (2018). For a detailed review, including studies on the impacts of highways and regional roads, see Hine et al. (20”