Evaluating the Impact of Rural Road Investment Projects on Household Welfare in Rural Area: Evidence from Fujian Province

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 the authors find that these methods can substantially reduce the bias found in non-experimental evaluations.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/41039(345)594
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  • © 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Tian, Yuan
  • Li, Ye
  • Chen, Xiaohong
• Conference:
  • Second International Conference on Transportation Engineering
  • Location: Chengdu , China
  • Date: 2009-7-25 to 2009-7-27
• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 3602-3608
• Monograph Title: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Financing; Income; Investments; Rural areas; Rural highways; Travel time
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01535522
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784410394
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Nov 12 2013 1:44PM