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 …

the cities and towns and economic infrastructure , and existing urban social-including logistic networks. …

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 …

Global South and particularly in Brazil. In this study, we examine the extent to which the urban form of Brazilian cities … impacts their urban mobility energy consumption. First, we present a descriptive analysis of how urban areas in Brazil have … per capita used in private motorized transport in the 182 largest urban areas in Brazil are affected by different …

This paper addresses the question whether or not large-scale infrastructure investments have a causal effect of local …

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 …

placement of road infrastructure programs we employ a correlated random effects model that corrects for location …-poor. Estimates show that investments in sealing roads to nearest towns led to higher consumption levels and housing quality, and to …

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 …