Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to the paved road network. This paper measures the impacts of India's USD 40 billion national rural road construction program using regression discontinuity and data covering every individual and firm in rural India. The main...

The rural poor in developing countries, once economically isolated, are increasingly being connected to regional markets. Whether these new connections crowd out or encourage educational investment is a central question. We examine the impacts on educational choices of 115,000 new roads built...

The rural poor in developing countries, once economically isolated, are increasingly being connected to regional markets. Whether these new connections crowd out or encourage educational investment is a central question. We examine the impacts on educational choices of 115,000 new roads built...