Nearly one billion people worldwide live in rural areas without access to the paved road network. This paper measures the impacts of India's USD 40 billion national rural road construction program using regression discontinuity and data covering every individual and firm in rural India. The main...

"The continuous migration of rural labor to cities has changed the fundamental characteristics of China's labor market, profoundly affected the country's investments, savings, technological progress and economic cycle fluctuation, and more importantly, the rapid development of non-agricultural...