道路维护与地方经济发展：印度尼西亚高速公路的证据

IF 5.7 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2024.103687

Paul J. Gertler , Marco Gonzalez-Navarro , Tadeja Gračner , Alexander D. Rothenberg

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摘要

本文估算了公路养护投资对当地福利的影响。我们利用印尼向地方公路管理部门分配资金的两步预算程序来衡量公路质量。利用 1990-2007 年有关道路质量的综合数据，我们发现有证据表明，更好的道路有助于制造商创造新的就业机会，使工人摆脱非正规就业，并增加劳动收入。道路质量还改变了生活成本，降低了易腐食品价格，但也提高了住房价格。我们估计家庭福利与道路质量的弹性为 0.1，道路维护投资的收益/成本比为 2.3。

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Road maintenance and local economic development: Evidence from Indonesia’s highways

This paper estimates the local welfare impacts of highway maintenance investments. We instrument road quality exploiting Indonesia’s two-step budgeting process for allocating funding to local road authorities. Using comprehensive data on road quality from 1990–2007, we find evidence that better roads help manufacturers create new jobs, enabling worker transitions out of informal employment, and increasing labor income. Road quality also changes the cost of living, reducing perishable food prices but also raising housing prices. We estimate the elasticity of household welfare with respect to road quality to be 0.1 and the benefit/cost ratio for road maintenance investments to be 2.3.

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Journal of Urban Economics Multiple-

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10.60

自引率

4.80%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Urban Economics provides a focal point for the publication of research papers in the rapidly expanding field of urban economics. It publishes papers of great scholarly merit on a wide range of topics and employing a wide range of approaches to urban economics. The Journal welcomes papers that are theoretical or empirical, positive or normative. Although the Journal is not intended to be multidisciplinary, papers by noneconomists are welcome if they are of interest to economists. Brief Notes are also published if they lie within the purview of the Journal and if they contain new information, comment on published work, or new theoretical suggestions.