’s spatial economy and maps potential benefits from public infrastructure investments. Results imply that infrastructure in … activities. Important spatial predictors of wealth and economic activity are paved roads, travel time to cities and ports …, population, power infrastructure, education, transport, and residential areas. These predictors interact heavily with one another …

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 …

As planned large investments in road infrastructure continue to be high on the agenda of many African countries, only … first presents data on the state of roads in Sub-Saharan Africa (length, density, condition) as well as on investments in … recommends some changes to improve the developmental impact of roads investments. Better prioritization of investments, better …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …