Using a road-level regression discontinuity design in Sierra Leone, we study the impacts of improvements in rural road infrastructure on crop prices in rural markets. We show that the improved roads reduced market prices of local crops. These price effects are stronger in markets that are...

Amartya Sen has been talking about wide socioeconomic injustice particularly in developing countries. Unequal and unjust distribution of infrastructure has been the cause of socioeconomic imbalances in rural and urban areas. In India only 40% of the urban and semi-urban population is provided...

How does a new highway in Germany impact residential real estate prices – both owner-occupied and rental properties? Construction of the A38 highway was completed in 2009 and expanded by additional interchanges at several points in time, through 2013. The highway connects the east and west of...

Child trafficking is a long-lasting social issue in China. We argue that abducted children increase as an indirect and unintended consequence of improved urban infrastructure, such as the construction of expressways that facilitate the expedient transfer of victims between cities. To identify...

Africa's road networks tend to have an interior-to-coast shape. As such, they are better placed to export natural resources, than to support regional trade. Are they the best response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of political distortions? To answer this question, we...

In this paper the authors used econometric tools and techniques that are conventionally used in the estimation of relationship between and impact of different variables and their application features in the literature of transport economics. The study made an attempt to empirically analyze the...

This paper examines the private provision of road. One could imagine that private road commissions would act as a monopoly, charging prices in excess of competitive levels, restricting access to the roads, and failing to maintain their roads at a competitive standard. To analyze this claim, I...

Each year federal, state, and local governments in the United States invest billions of dollars on roads, bridges, airports, and other infrastructure projects. Unlike private firms, government agencies have no price signals to guide their decisions, making it more difficult for them to make...

The overall growth of government-owned infrastructure has been very similar across most regions over the past 44 years. With the exception of the Atlantic Provinces, the range of average annual capital growth from one region to the next has been very narrow, falling between 1.8% and 2.2% since...