Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction
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- Anjali Adukia & Sam Asher & Paul Novosad, 2020. "Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(1), pages 348-376, January.
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Keywords
Education; Roads; India; Human capital; labor demand shocks; infrastructure; development;JEL classification:
- I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2017-07-23 (Development)
- NEP-EDU-2017-07-23 (Education)
- NEP-TRE-2017-07-23 (Transport Economics)
- NEP-URE-2017-07-23 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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