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Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Adukia, Anjali Asher, Sam Novosad, Paul
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal 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 under India’s flagship road construction program. We find that children stay in school longer and perform better on standardized exams. Treatment heterogeneity supports the predictions of a standard human capital investment model: enrollment increases are largest where nearby labor markets offer the highest returns to education and lowest where they imply high opportunity costs of schooling.
Related Links	https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/80194/1/MPRA_paper_80194.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2967464
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.2967464
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2017-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Mathematical Social Sciences Educational Investment Road Construction Highest Returns
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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