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Apr 26, 2012
Evaluating the Impact of Rural Road Investment Projects on Household Welfare in Rural Area: Evidence from Fujian Province
Authors: Yuan Tian [email protected], Ye Li, and Xiaohong ChenAuthor Affiliations
Publication: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009
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The basic purpose of public investment in rural roads is to increase the social benefits in rural areas. However, it has been difficult to precisely quantify the size and especially the distribution of benefits from rural road investments, due to methodological constraints and data limitations. This paper presents a propensity-score matched double difference method to estimate the impact of Rural Roads Improvement Projects (RRIP) such as travel time, trip frequency, and income on rural households. Furthermore, a panel data surveying project and control villages before and after program implementation from Fujian Province is applied to estimate the welfare gain as an empirical approach, and we find that these methods can substantially reduce the bias found in non-experimental evaluations.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Financial management
- Geography
- Geomatics
- Highway and road management
- Highway transportation
- Highways and roads
- Infrastructure
- Investments
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Rural areas
- Social factors
- Traffic engineering
- Transportation engineering
- Travel patterns
- Travel time
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Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, 201804 BOX13#604, Shanghai, Caoan Road 4800;. E-mail: [email protected]
Ye Li
Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, 201804 BOX13#604, Shanghai, Caoan Road 4800
Xiaohong Chen
Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, 201804 BOX13#604, Shanghai, Caoan Road 4800
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