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 …

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 …

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 …

Core infrastructure, which covers transportation, information and communication (ICT), energy, water and sanitation … systems, plays a significant role in economic growth. The development of core infrastructure - one of the European Union (EU … addressing the identified issues is needed to assess the impact of infrastructure on economic growth and convergence …

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 …

Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for … accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and …. Two results emerge. First, we estimate that this road infrastructure project accounts for 15 percent of the export …

costs, infrastructure quality, and cross-border connectivity. The high costs of trade make the production process slow and … costly, which forces international trade flows to concentrate on locations with better infrastructure quality and lower …, distance, and infrastructure quality. …