 Infrastructure-driven healthcare advancements: Rural Roads and Maternal Health in EthiopiaMusa Hasen Ahmed and Wondimagegn Mesfin Tesfaye Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2025, vol. 118, issue C Abstract: We examine the link between road accessibility and the use of maternal healthcare services in Ethiopia. Using a quasi-experimental design, we compare maternal health outcomes in villages before and after road construction alongside control villages without such infrastructure. Our analysis suggests that rural road development is associated with increased utilization of maternal healthcare services during the prenatal stage. However, we did not observe significant associations during the birth or postnatal stages. Using data collected before the commencement of the road expansion program, we confirm that the observed association between road access and maternal healthcare utilization can be attributed to the road infrastructure rather than to pre-existing conditions in the villages. Keywords: Road; Maternal healthcare; Selection bias; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:soceco:v:118:y:2025:i:c:s2214804325000916 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2025.102427 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics) is currently edited by Pablo Brañas Garza More articles in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics) from Elsevier |
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