Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190036 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/191
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Prior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique - where the capital city is located - and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions. In this paper, we leverage the opening of a major road bridge to identify the impact of enhanced domestic transport infrastructure on agricultural market performance. We apply a generalized difference-in-difference estimator within a dyadic regression context. While we find no reduction in the market price differential around the time the bridge opened for all treated market pairs, there is a significant and persistent price impact only among previously disconnected markets located close to the new bridge. This suggests that new infrastructure can enhance market performance, but such benefits are spatially limited.
Subjects: 
infrastructure
agricultural market performance
prices
natural experiment
JEL: 
O13
Q13
R42
C99
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-417-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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