Can infrastructure investment win "hearts and minds"? We analyze a famous case in the early stages of dictatorship …

Transportation infrastructure is associated with economic development, but it can also be used for social control and …-led repression and the illegal allocation of agricultural plots to dictatorship allies. These results suggest that infrastructure …

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …

I provide evidence of the severe social costs imposed by infrastructure projects that are being implemented (i …. Failing to take the implementation phase into account could severely bias the welfare evaluation of infrastructure. …