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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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behavior. In Jerusalem, water bill due dates are randomly determined and therefore may occur just before or after social … a day after the water bill due date to the likelihood of late payment by the same households when they receive their … benefits a day or more before the water bill due date. Using a large administrative data set, we found that a small random …
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This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...
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Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a full' Generalized Least...
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Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs … region needs to enhance its connectivity through developing transport infrastructure at the national and regional level to … infrastructure will have profound implications on environment and climate change at the national, regional and global levels as well …
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This article examines how the shale oil revolution has shaped the evolution of U.S. crude oil and gasoline prices. It puts the evolution of shale oil production into historical perspective, highlights uncertainties about future shale oil production, and cautions against the view that the U.S....
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Reliable supply chains are crucial to the productivity and economic growth of nations. Despite the recognition of its importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply...
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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