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Title: Spatial Integration, Agricultural Productivity, and Development: A Quantitative Analysis of Ethiopia’s Road Expansion Program

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: I study the effects of Ethiopia's 1996-2014 road expansion program on aggregate and local agricultural productivity and development outcomes. I combine a quantitative spatial framework with a novel district-level panel data set on agricultural production and transport costs. I estimate transport costs between district centers and domestic crop markets accounting for the volume and quality of the road network, and the topography of the terrain. The model features multiple rural locations, where delivering crops to market, as well as accessing intermediate inputs is subject to location-good-specific transport costs. The spatial heterogeneity of transport costs affects the distribution of production and mobile inputs across locations, and the allocation of land across crops within locations.

Url: https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Adamopoulos-2018-Working-paper.pdf

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Authors: Adamopoulos, Tasso

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Publication Number: F-32404-ETH-1

Institution: York University

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Publisher Location: Ontario

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other

Countries: Ethiopia