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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets

Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2024

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …

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Constructing BEA highways and streets net wealth stocks with detailed types of investment and engineering-based estimates of depreciation

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Kornfeld, Robert - 2024

This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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Infrastructure's imprint : metro proximity and property development dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil

Grimaldi, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Zimmermann, Beatrice - 2024

causal impacts of transportation infrastructure has grown in recent years, only a few papers have focused on the effects of … associated with the new metro infrastructure and dynamic impacts after the opening of the first metro station, with effects that …

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Lobbying, corruption and other banes

Campos, Nauro (contributor); … - 2008

Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...

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Remittances, institutions and economic growth

Catrinescu, Natalia; León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; Piracha, … - 2006

There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased enormously over the last decade, academic and...

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Life cycle employment and fertility across institutional environments

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility choices and estimate approximate decision rules using data on married women in Italy, Spain and France. The pattern of estimated state dependence effects across countries is...

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...

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Inequality, institutions and cooperation

Markussen, Thomas; Sharma, Smriti; Singhal, Saurabh; … - 2020

We examine the effects of randomly introduced economic inequality on voluntary co- operation and whether this relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field public goods experiment with...

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Labour market transitions, shocks and institutions in turbulent times : a cross-country analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Felder, Rahel - 2018

This paper analyses the impact of the business cycle on labour market dynamics in EU member states and the US during the first decade of the 21st century. Using unique measures of labour market flows constructed from worker-level micro data, we examine to what extent macro shocks were...

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