infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean. To measure the impact of the economic and social aspects of this type of … infrastructure, the analysis differentiates according to the geographic context (urban and rural), gender, and educational level, and … details the effects and channels that link the deployment of last-mile infrastructure with socioeconomic benefits. The results …

Poorly maintained public infrastructure is common in low- and middle-income countries, with consequences for service …

It is widely accepted that investing in public infrastructure promotes economic development. However, there is little … awareness of the prevalence of unfinished infrastructure projects and their consequences. In this paper, I study the effect of … unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 …

What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked … channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn … infrastructure. Firms play a critical role in driving these results: highways increase firms' size, entry rates, survival rates, and …