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Quasi-Experimental Designs For Measuring Impacts Of Developmental Highways In Rural Areas

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  • Broder, Josef M.
  • Taylor, Teresa D.
  • McNamara, Kevin T.

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Quasi-experimental techniques were developed to provide decision-making tools for documenting the impacts of developmental highways in rural areas. Regression discontinuity analysis (RDA) with limited observations was used to compare economic changes in highway counties to those in adjacent and non-adjacent control counties. The RDA models found statistically significant changes in population, per capita income, and taxable sales related to highway development. The study found that some counties benefitted from developmental highways, some were unchanged, while some experienced economic decline. RDA models with adjacent controls had better explanatory powers while those with non-adjacent controls were more sensitive to highway-related changes in economic activity. When significant non-highway activities were present, adjacent control models may have understated highway-related impacts, while non-adjacent control models may have overstated these impacts. Arguments for using adjacent and non-adjacent experimental designs are discussed.

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  • Broder, Josef M. & Taylor, Teresa D. & McNamara, Kevin T., 1992. "Quasi-Experimental Designs For Measuring Impacts Of Developmental Highways In Rural Areas," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 24(1), pages 199-207, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:24:y:1992:i:01:p:199-207_02
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    1. Li, Jianling & Whitaker, Elizabeth, 2018. "The impact of governmental highway investments on local economic outcome in the post-highway era," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 410-420.
    2. Brown, Dennis M., 1999. "Highway Investment and Rural Economic Development: An Annotated Bibliography," Miscellaneous Publications 320016, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Amy K. Glasmeier & Tracey Farrigan, 2007. "The Economic Impacts of the Prison Development Boom on Persistently Poor Rural Places," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 30(3), pages 274-299, July.
    4. Brown, Dennis M. & Flake, Oliver L., 1999. "Rural Transportation: An Annotated Bibliography," Miscellaneous Publications 323881, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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