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Roads and Jobs in Ethiopia
[When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?”]

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  • Matteo Fiorini
  • Marco Sanfilippo

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Does improving roads affect jobs and structural transformation? A novel geocoded data set covering the universe of Ethiopian roads matched with individual data allows the relationship between improvements in road infrastructure and labor-market outcomes over the 1994–2013 period to be identified. At the district level, greater market access due to better roads correlates with the process of structural transformation in Ethiopia. Improvements in market access are related to reductions in the share of agricultural workers and increases in that of workers in the services sector, but not in manufacturing. Heterogeneity in this relationship exists across industries, gender, education level, and age cohorts. Patterns of internal migration and changes in economic opportunities can help rationalize these findings.

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  • Matteo Fiorini & Marco Sanfilippo, 2022. "Roads and Jobs in Ethiopia [When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?”]," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 36(4), pages 999-1020.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:36:y:2022:i:4:p:999-1020.
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    1. An, Jiafu & Guo, Shiqi & Jiang, Haicheng, 2025. "Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(1), pages 118-138.
    2. Anti, Sebastian & Zhang, Zhihui, 2023. "Roads, women’s employment, and gender equity: Evidence from Cambodia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    3. Perra, Elena & Sanfilippo, Marco & Sundaram, Asha, 2024. "Roads, competition, and the informal sector," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).

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