PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Clive Bell AU - Susanne van Dillen TI - How Does India’s Rural Roads Program Affect the Grassroots? Findings from a Survey in Upland Orissa AID - 10.3368/le.90.2.372 DP - 2014 May 01 TA - Land Economics PG - 372--394 VI - 90 IP - 2 4099 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/90/2/372.short 4100 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/90/2/372.full SO - Land Econ2014 May 01; 90 AB - This paper analyzes the effects of all weather rural roads on households’ net output prices, education, and health in a poor region of India. Cross-section and before-and-after comparisons yield these findings: (1) net output prices were 5% or more higher; (2) fewer days of schooling were lost due to bad weather, largely because teachers had fewer absences; (3) the acutely sick received timelier treatment and more frequently in a hospital than the nearest primary clinic; and (4) respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of health and education at least as highly as the “commercial” ones. (JEL O12, O18)