Complementarities in Infrastructure: Evidence from Rural India

Pré-publication, Document de travail: Complementarities between infrastructure projects have been understudied. This paper examines interactions in the impacts of large-scale road construction, electrification, and mobile phone coverage programs in rural India. We find strong evidence of complementary impacts between roads and electricity on agricultural production: dry season cropping increases significantly when villages receive both, but not when they receive one without the other. These complementarities are associated with a shift of cropping patterns towards market crops and with improved economic conditions. In contrast, we find no consistent evidence of complementarities for the mobile coverage program.

Auteur(s)

Oliver Vanden Eynde, Liam Wren-Lewis

Date de publication
  • 2023
Mots-clés JEL
O13 O18 Q15
Mots-clés
  • Infrastructure
  • Complementarities
  • Agriculture
Référence interne
  • PSE Working Papers n°2021-29
Version
  • 2