Urban concentration differs across countries. One determinant of these differences is economic development, which first increases and subsequently decreases urban concentration. I condition the degree of urban concentration on the potential of countries to develop a balanced urban system. These...

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset ofbilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized highway network maps, andfirm-level census. I first...

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 road infrastructure on the creation, quality, and...

This paper examines the effects of economic integration resulting from highway construction on aggregate productivity and the spatial distribution of industries. To do so, I construct a unique dataset of bilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized highway network maps, and...

The development of toll road infrastructure in Indonesia is still slow down, if we compare the growth of toll road before crisis from 1978 until 1998 was 13.66% and after the crisis from 1999 to 2010 was 2.14%. Otherwise, the length of toll road in Indonesia until now has 742 km, operated by...

Against the backdrop of growing momentum for regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia, this paper examines the link between regional roads and Asian Development Bank (ADB) support between 1966 and 2008. The novel methodology used in this paper includes an Asia-wide definition of...