Rural Roads and Poor Area Development in Vietnam
By R. Mu, Dominique van de Walle. 2007
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The authors assess impacts of rural road rehabilitation on market development at the commune level in rural Vietnam and examine the variance of those impacts and the geographic, community, and household factors that explains it. Double difference and matching methods are used to address sources of selection bias in identifying impacts. The results point to significant average impacts on the development of local markets. They also uncover evidence of considerable impact heterogeneity, with a tendency for poorer communes to have higher impacts due to lower levels of initial market development. Yet, poor areas are also saddled with other attributes that reduce those impacts.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research
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- Timing and Duration of Exposure in Evaluations of Social Programs (2008, unknown): “In their evaluation of a rural roads project in Vietnam, Mu and van de Walle (2007) find that, because of developments external to the program, rural road construction and rehabilitation produced larger gains as more time elapsed after project completion.”
- Addressing poverty and inequality in the rural economy from a global perspective (2015, background): “Several studies point to the importance of investing in road improvements as a key step to increase access to new markets (Mu and van de Walle, 2007), improving the productive capacity of vulnerable households (Jacoby, 2000), and lowering transportation costs, leading to cheaper inputs and higher…”