"This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries. Drawing on global and national lessons of COVID-19 and extensive working experience in...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue to the English edition -- Prologue to the Spanish edition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The evolution of urban policy in developing countries: a...

We exploit scanner data to track payment choice for grocery purchases for a large panel of households over three years. We show that households focus most of their expenditures on one or at most two of these instruments in choosing between using cash, a check, or a card, and they very rarely...

Abstract This paper investigates recent developments in the literature on nonparametric instrumental variables estimation and considers the practical importance of the features of these estimators in the context of typically applied econometric models. Our primary focus is on the estimation of...

In this paper, we explicitly model and estimate the effect of paid, owned and earned media exposures, including television, online banner ad, and Facebook exposures, on purchase behavior at the household level. We use an advertising goodwill model, allowing for asymmetric decay rates for...