across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road … development in Peru. Our results show that the long-run effect of the Inca Road includes increases in wages and educational …

Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure … road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our … measure correlates strongly and positively with other measures of road roughness where they are available, negatively with …

existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a … large-scale public investment in roads during the 2000s. Using spatially disaggregated data on road upgrades and domestic …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …

labor from local agricultural production leading to more firms. Using major highway programs in India and China, we find …