This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

components of a country’s infrastructure to access international markets. I provide a framework to jointly estimate the quality … international and internal trade with port and road infrastructure to assess the relative importance of ports versus roads in … are higher than those for roads under the existing Indian infrastructure network, but improvements in ports and roads have …

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that … government activities, the economic forces shaping the endogenous emergence of infrastructure have not been rigorously studied … transport infrastructure investments across continuous space. Allowing for intra- and international trade, the resulting …

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal …

analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically … polarized society and a decentralized education system. Using unique county-level data on education spending we show that … border suggest that the relationship can be causally interpreted. Exploiting a reform of education spending, we show that …

income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …