Dumas, Christelle Játiva, Ximena 2020-09-01 Spatial isolation is considered as one of the main determinants of poverty. Therefore, many transport investments are undertaken with a stated objective of poverty reduction. In our paper, we evaluate a Tanzanian program that rehabilitated 2500km of major roads between 2008 and 2013. We deal with endogenous placement issues with a household fixed-effect strategy combined with a propensity score matching. Contrary to most studies, we find damaging effects of the road on the rural population: the price of the main product (rice) decreases, they reduce rice production and reallocate labor away from farm but opportunities of o_-farm work are scarce. This results in depressed wages and households declare a lower satisfaction. This is consistent with a situation where rural households face an increased competition due to lower transportation costs. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/308795 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/308795/files/WP_SES_518.pdf eng http://www.unifr.ch/ses/wp info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Roads Poverty Rural households Africa info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Better roads, better off? : Evidence on improving roads in Tanzania http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18ws