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 … shaping international market access, and estimate it using a novel transaction-level export dataset for India. A key …

Noise pollution is detrimental to health and to cognitive development of children. This is not only true for extreme … children, we show that children who are exposed to intensive traffic noise significantly fall behind in terms of school …

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine …

This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …

children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

fetal growth rate is negatively associated with disruptive behaviors among male children. These results suggest that …