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population associated with proximity to rivers is closely correlated with higher levels of infrastructure, markets and individual …
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We predict the amount, share, and value of land dedicated to roadways within and across 316 US Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Despite the amount and value of land dedicated to roadway, our study provides the first such estimate across a broad range of metropolitan areas. Our basic...
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Liquidity management is key in industries with variable cash flows. We study how businesses in the highway construction industry manage cash flow by strategically bidding more on work with an earlier payout--a practice known as front-end loading. We find that small contractors, infrequent...
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-skill spillovers favor more mixing in low-wage locations. Fifth, government spending on infrastructure, investment incentives, or …
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This paper estimates the local welfare impacts of road maintenance investments. We instrument road quality exploiting Indonesia's two-step budgeting process for allocating funding to local road authorities. Using comprehensive data on road quality from 1990-2007, we find that better roads help...
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Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners …)--matter? We explore these questions in the context of global airports, which like other infrastructure assets have been privatized …; instead, infrastructure funds improve performance both in privatization and subsequent acquisitions from non-PE private firms …
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Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure …
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Infrastructure costs in the United States are high and rising. The procurement process is one potential cost driver. In … think drive costs. We then assemble a new dataset of project-level infrastructure costs. We correlate the survey practices …
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financial infrastructure shapes how infrastructure investments impact localities …
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How do political preferences shape transportation policy? We study this question in the context of California's High-Speed Rail (CHSR). Combining geographic data on votes in a referendum on the CHSR with a model of its expected economic benefits, we estimate the weight of economic and...
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