Road to the future: Identifying impacts of roads on education in Colombia

Jaime Polanco-Jimenez

International Journal of Educational Development, 2025, vol. 117, issue C

Abstract: This study examines the impact of Colombia’s Public–Private Partnership (PPP) road concessions on educational outcomes using a staggered difference-in-differences approach with student-level data (2006–2021). I find that road project completion leads to statistically significant increases of 0.169 standard deviations in math and 0.11 standard deviations reading literacy scores. Furthermore, child labor decreases by 3%, while higher education pursuit increases by 4.8%. These robust results suggest PPP-driven road investments effectively promote human capital development, urging policymakers to consider these short- and long-term educational effects when evaluating infrastructure.

Keywords: Road infrastructure; Education; Economic development; Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs); Developing countries; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 O18 R42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103339

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