the cities and towns and economic infrastructure , and existing urban social-including logistic networks. …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …

Global South and particularly in Brazil. In this study, we examine the extent to which the urban form of Brazilian cities … impacts their urban mobility energy consumption. First, we present a descriptive analysis of how urban areas in Brazil have … per capita used in private motorized transport in the 182 largest urban areas in Brazil are affected by different …

The paper provides historical perspectives on spatial economic inequalities in Brazil making use of a database on …

This paper addresses the question whether or not large-scale infrastructure investments have a causal effect of local …

roads to highways. We apply this tool to study transport infrastructure investment through the European Cohesion Policy … transport policy tool to assess the impact of road-transport infrastructure investment in a region by considering upgrading …

placement of road infrastructure programs we employ a correlated random effects model that corrects for location …-poor. Estimates show that investments in sealing roads to nearest towns led to higher consumption levels and housing quality, and to …

How can infrastructure help to reduce the gender education gap in developing countries? In this paper, I analyze the … 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 …

There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the … causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new … farther away. Our estimated depletion rates near the two roads are at least 5 times higher relative to mean depletion rates in …