We examine the relationship between road quality and regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Roads are an important … the existence of paved roads and regional, round, and country/round fixed effects, we find a negative effect of having a … co-regional president, such that co-regional presidents provide poorer quality roads to their home areas than to other …

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 sectoral distribution of jobs over the period 1994-2013. We find that, at …

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its … effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and … paper encourages discussion about how to measure infrastructure capital, particularly highways and streets, and its effects. …

lends support to the Ghanaian government's current economic and infrastructure development plans. …