Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Deng, Xiangzheng; Gong, Yazhen; … - 2023
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 …