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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584324
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The impact of the German autobahn net on regional labor market performance : a study using historical instrument variables
Möller, Joachim; Zierer, Marcus - 2014
infrastructure investments as measured by changes in the length of the autobahn net of West German NUTS 3 areas on regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423765
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High-speed railways and firms total factor productivity : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Ferrara, Antonella Rita; … - 2023
The focus of this study is to assess the causal impact of the connection of a local area to a high-speed rail network (HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia is exploited in a Difference-in Differences...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896952
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584337
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Bright investments : measuring the impact of transport infrastructure using luminosity data in Haiti
Mitnik, Oscar A.; Sanchez, Raul; Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2018
This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using … benefited by a transport infrastructure project. We observe temporal and spatial variation in results, and crucially that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955583
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Energy poverty and subjective well-being in China : new evidence from the China family panel studies
Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2021
Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies, we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on subjective well-being (SWB) among Chinese adults aged 18 and over. In addition to documenting EP rates in the range of 13.2% to 35.3% (dependent on measurement used), we show that EP...
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Childhood adversity and energy poverty
Cheng, Zhiming; Guo, Liwen; Smyth, Russell; Tani, … - 2021
We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the Famine, measured by the number of excess deaths per 100...
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Inexpensive heating reduces winter mortality
Chirakijja, Janjala; Jayachandran, Seema; Ong, Pinchuan - 2019
This paper examines how the price of home heating affects mortality in the US. Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. It also raises energy bills, which could affect health by decreasing other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988556
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Energy poverty and entrepreneurship
Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021
We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that negative personal circumstances can foster self-reliance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596057