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Place-Based Economic Development and Long-Run Firm Employment and Sales : Evidence from American Indian Reservations
Aguilar, Joseph A.; Akee, Randall; Mykerezi, Elton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine how one of the largest U.S. place-based economic development programs, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988, with annual revenues in excess of \$40 billion, affects local firm total employment and sales through direct channels and through IGRA's effects on adjacent...
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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil
Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and … skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that cities in the south of Brazil are more effective engines of upward … prevalent in the cities of southern Brazil than in northern cities. This segregation, which can decline with specialization and …
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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...
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Infrastructure and Finance : Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network
Das, Abhiman; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20-30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in industries more dependent upon external finance. Loan growth begins with...
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The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested : Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries
Akbar, Prottoy; Couture, Victor; Duranton, Gilles; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We assemble a new global database on motor vehicle travel speed in over 1,200 large cities in 152 countries. We then estimate comparable city-level indices of travel speed and congestion. Most of the variation in urban travel speed is across countries, not within. National income per capita...
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Procurement and Infrastructure Costs
Liscow, Zachary; Nober, Will; Slattery, Cailin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In this paper we conduct a survey of procurement practices across the 50 states. We survey both employees at each state department of transportation (DOT) and the road builders...
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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta
Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on individual preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We...
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Political Preferences and the Spatial Distribution of Infrastructure : Evidence from California's High-Speed Rail
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D.; Gaubert, Cecile; Gorton, Nicole; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do political preferences shape transportation policy? We study this question in the context of California's High-Speed Rail (CHSR). Combining geographic data on votes in a referendum on the CHSR with a model of its expected economic benefits, we estimate the weight of economic and...
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Infrastructure Inequality : Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?
Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our measure correlates strongly and positively with other...
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Girls' Night In? Effects of the Kenyan COVID-19 Lockdown on Web Browsing
Giardili, Soledad; Jain, Sanjay; Miller, Amalia R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We present the first objective evidence on how COVID-19 lockdowns affected internet browser usage in Africa, using detailed digital trace data on PC-based and mobile-based browsing patterns of 316 Kenyans who had access to a PC, covering the period before and during Kenya's first national...
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