期刊名称：Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1817-4604
电子版ISSN：1817-4604
出版年度：2007
卷号：3
期号：3
语种：English
出版社：Soc Rsch Soc Sci & Contig Disc
摘要：This paper investigates empirically the impact of a highway development on the poverty status and socio-economic conditions of well-being of the people living in its proximity, through greater connectivity and transport mobility. It points out the connection between the road development and the individual welfare maximising choices with the help of a microeconomic rural household model. It shows how the value of the various household level well-being indicators tend to decline as the approach distance of a household from the highway increases and tends to disappear beyond a threshold distance using nonparametric regression models with the baseline survey cross section data pertaining to the project of widening the National Highway 2 of India. The paper further uses propensity score matching cum differencing method to estimate the partial effect of the highway on those welfare indicators and illustratively show how the highway has significant impact on the rural economies in India through which it passes.
