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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from Indonesia

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The present paper explores the role of religious and social norms on a community’s access to public infrastructure. Distinguishing between social and physical infrastructure, we argue that investment in social infrastructural goods (e.g., health, education) could contribute to exchange both within and outside the community, while that in physical infrastructure (e.g., road, transport, communications) could only improve exchange outside the community. Accordingly, traditional communities may prefer to invest in social infrastructure goods at the cost of physical infrastructure goods in an attempt to preserve their indigenous identity. Using three rounds of Indonesian family life survey data, we find some support to this central hypothesis, even after controlling for all other possible covariates.

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  • Sarmistha Pal, 2009. "Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure: Evidence from Indonesia," CEDI Discussion Paper Series 09-08, Centre for Economic Development and Institutions(CEDI), Brunel University.
    • Handle: RePEc:edb:cedidp:09-08
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    1. Maleke FOURATI & Antonio ESTACHE, 2020. "Infrastructure Provision, Politics And Religion: Insights From Tunisia'S New Democracy," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 91(1), pages 29-53, March.
    2. Harry A Patrinos & Najeeb Shafiq, 2010. "An Empirical Illustration of Positive Stigma towards Child Labor," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(1), pages 799-807.
    3. Antonio Estache, 2016. "Institutions for Infrastructure in Developing Countries: What We Know and the Lot We still Need to Know," Working Papers ECARES ECARES 2016-27, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

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