Education Projects
Connectivity and Rural Development: Examining India’s Rural Road Construction Scheme
Santosh Kumar Gautam (Assistant Professor / Researcher from Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame ) , Monica Shandal (Researcher from UC Santa Cruz ) , and Ariel Zucker (Assistant Professor / Researcher from UC Santa Cruz )
Project summary: This project evaluates the short-run impacts of India’s Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the world’s largest rural road construction programme, on economic, social, and institutional outcomes in rural Uttar Pradesh. Using a novel village-level survey of 267…
Location: 14 districts around Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Bahraich, Barabanki, Faizabad, Farrukhabad, Gonda, Sultanpur, Hardoi, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Lakhimpur Kheri, Rae Bareli, Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Unnao)
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