eprintid: 19553
rev_number: 26
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/95/53
datestamp: 2015-10-02 07:58:55
lastmod: 2016-01-18 13:38:06
status_changed: 2015-10-02 07:58:55
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bell , Clive 
creators_name: van Dillen , Susanne 
title: On the Way to Good Health? Rural Roads and Morbidity in Upland Orissa 
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: Rural roads, morbidity, India
abstract: This paper investigates the effects of India’s rural roads program (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households drawn from 30 villages in a region of upland Orissa. The households were surveyed in 2010 and 2013, yielding an unbalanced panel of 1580 individuals, 1076 of whom were
present in both years. Ten villages had received a direct all-weather road connection by 2013. Treating the village as a unit within the whole road network, the provision of a connection, whether direct or in the neighbourhood, is estimated to have reduced an inhabitant’s probability of falling sick by an estimated 3.6 percentage points, and the expected duration of incapacitating illness by 0.46 days, for each km. of unpaved track so replaced.
date: 2015-09
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00019553
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0602
ppn_swb: 1658164458
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-195533
language: eng
bibsort: BELLCLIVEONTHEWAYTO201509
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0602
pages: 32
citation:   Bell , Clive  ; van Dillen , Susanne   (2015) On the Way to Good Health? Rural Roads and Morbidity in Upland Orissa.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/19553/1/bell_van%20dillen_2015_dp602.pdf