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

Bilateral Assistance & Capacity Building for Central Banks

Tseveenjav Lkhanaa

I30, O12, O18, Q12, R3

access to markets, market distance, rural poverty, rural household income, herder household income, household location

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.