Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India

By Jonathan Lehne, Jacob N. Shapiro, Oliver Vanden Eynde. 2018

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “(Lehne et al., 2016) show that in the program we study, politicians steer road contracts towards contractors sharing their last names, raising costs and lowering road quality.”
• Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “22 Indeed, Lehne et al. (2018) document that more than 97 percent of the villages that”