Market Distance and Household Income: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Mongolia

Tseveenjav Lkhanaa

No 09-2024, IHEID Working Papers from Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of access to markets on livestock-related income of herder households in Mongolia. The empirical findings show that reducing the distance to markets by ten kilometers increases household income by 1.0 percent on average.

Keywords: access to markets; market distance; rural poverty; rural household income; herder household income; household location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 O12 O18 Q12 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2024-07-04
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