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：2015
卷号：7
语种：English
出版社：Soc Rsch Soc Sci & Contig Disc
摘要：The basic premise that has been empirically investigated in this paper relates to the effect that a highway and its widening may have on the socioeconomic lives of people, especially the poorer people, living in its proximity. As it has been argued in this paper analytically in terms of a rural household model, that such impact is positive at the micro level, because closer a household is to the highway, greater would be its connectivity and mobility and hence access to various economic opportunities and amenities of life. To put it differently, one would expect these positive welfare effects to decline as the approach distance of the highway from the household rises and ultimately to disappear beyond a threshold distance. This premise has been empirically verified here using a household level baseline survey data pertaining to the project of widening of a stretch of NH2, one of India's oldest national highways. The paper further examines how the widening of the highway enhance the benefit of proximity to the highway by comparing the baseline survey data and the resurvey data , the latter pertaining to a period after the completion of the project. It thus estimates the partial effect of widening of the highway on the socio-economic well-being of the household of the economies through which it passes using the methodology of nonparametric regression analysis and propensity score matching technique cum single/ double differencing technique.
