sector, dry-land agriculture, hydropower, roads infrastructure costs and sea level rise. These factors have not been … impacts are showed to be potentially significant particularly resulting from additional roads infrastructure costs and …

-poor. Estimates show that investments in sealing roads to nearest towns led to higher consumption levels and housing quality, and to …

We examine the relationship between road quality and regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Roads are an important … the existence of paved roads and regional, round, and country/round fixed effects, we find a negative effect of having a … co-regional president, such that co-regional presidents provide poorer quality roads to their home areas than to other …

We look at how improving roads can affect jobs and structural transformation. We use a novel geocoded dataset covering … the universe of Ethiopian roads and match this information with individual data to identify the effects of improvements in … the district level, higher market potential due to better roads contributes to the creation of new jobs, reduces the share …

without direct access to the roads. We interpret these findings as evidence of a process of rural-to-rural migration due to … the new roads. …

complementarity of all-weather roads and a bicycle program in Bihar, India, which aimed to increase girls' secondary school enrollment …-weather roads. Their net secondary school enrollment rate increased by over 87 percent, reducing the respective gender education gap … allweather roads are not just complementary to the bicycle program but a precondition for its success. The findings highlight the …

- from seventeenth-century shoguns to post-war planners - in transforming Japan's maritime infrastructure, its roads and …

The paper examines the impact of a rural roads construction program in India on women's outcomes. While spatial … underlying gender norms. We identify the impact of the policy by exploiting the program rule that assigned roads based on the … village population. Using a two-way fixed effect methodology, we find that increase in rural roads construction lowers …