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Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to …
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We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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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 … disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types, such as new construction, repair and resurfacing, and …
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We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
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This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...
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, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … the firm level. The paper focuses on how the impact of the investment climate varies across sizes of firms. The … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials …
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; social and physical infrastructure ; allocation of spending ; community development ; Indonesia …
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influence the investment decisions of entrepreneurs and the performance of their firms. In general, a hybrid political order … family-owned dominance in business; and by skewing investment decisions. Specifically, we find that family firms whose …
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We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
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We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...
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