Thesis
Roads to development? The distributional effects of market access on wages: evidence from Kenya
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This thesis analyses the heterogeneous and distributional effects of changes in trans- port infrastructure on city level wages in Kenya. To do this I develop a consistent theory, dichotomising industries into tradeable and non-tradeable, and adopting a suffcient statistic approach, using market access. To empirically evaluate these questions, I construct two novel data sets digitising historical Statistical Abstracts and Michelin maps between 1992 and 2010. This new data on wages by indust...
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Funding
Economic and Social Research Council
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Oxford Radcliffe
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- MPhil
- Level of award:
- Masters
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2020-06-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Heath Milsom, L
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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