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

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. …

franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that …

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase …

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub … about the processing of small infrastructure projects requests by sub-municipal governments. The objective of this …, and monitoring small infrastructure project allocations. Second, is to explicitly alter the probability of detecting …

important implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage …