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Straßenbau 1,576 Road construction 1,395 Autobahn 337 Motorway 333 Road financing 238 Straßenfinanzierung 238 Infrastrukturinvestition 200 Infrastructure investment 197 Verkehrsinfrastruktur 173 Transport infrastructure 163 Deutschland 148 Theorie 146 Theory 146 Straßenverkehr 138 Straße 126 Road transport 118 Public-private partnership 116 Öffentlich-private Partnerschaft 116 Germany 109 Road 96 USA 93 Räumliche Erreichbarkeit 89 Spatial accessibility 89 United States 84 Maut 79 Road pricing 79 Vereinigte Staaten 79 Impact assessment 71 Wirkungsanalyse 71 India 70 Indien 70 Ländliche Infrastruktur 64 Ländlicher Raum 64 Rural infrastructure 64 Rural area 62 Großbritannien 52 Entwicklungsländer 49 Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse 46 United Kingdom 45 China 44
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Article in journal 426 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 426 Graue Literatur 379 Non-commercial literature 379 Arbeitspapier 182 Working Paper 182 Amtsdruckschrift 90 Government document 90 Aufsatz im Buch 65 Book section 65 Hochschulschrift 65 Thesis 39 Konferenzschrift 28 Collection of articles of several authors 20 Sammelwerk 20 Advisory report 14 Gutachten 14 Bibliografie enthalten 11 Bibliography included 11 Mehrbändiges Werk 11 Multi-volume publication 11 Conference paper 9 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 9 Konferenzbeitrag 9 No longer published / No longer aquired 9 Statistik 9 Case study 8 Conference proceedings 8 Fallstudie 8 Forschungsbericht 8 Statistics 7 Aufsatzsammlung 6 Bericht 6 Collection of articles written by one author 5 Konferenzschrift/Kongressbericht 5 Sammlung 5 Monografische Reihe 4 Business report 3 Geschäftsbericht 3 Handbook 3
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English 1,186 German 277 Undetermined 62 French 26 Russian 9 Spanish 9 Swedish 8 Norwegian 6 Dutch 5 Polish 5 Portuguese 4 Croatian 3 Slovenian 3 Afrikaans 2 Italian 2 Turkish 2 Arabic 1 Danish 1 Hungarian 1 Serbian 1 Chinese 1
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Bell, Clive 16 Iimi, Atsushi 14 Morjaria, Ameet 10 Schmuck, Alfred 10 Estache, Antonio 8 Jedwab, Remi 8 Raballand, Gaël 8 Verhoef, Erik T. 8 Wheeler, David 8 Burgess, Robin 7 Damania, Richard 7 Engel, Eduardo 7 Fischer, Ronald 7 Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel 7 Ghani, Ejaz 7 Kerr, William R. 7 Marion, Justin 7 Miguel, Edward 7 Voth, Hans-Joachim 7 Bajari, Patrick L. 6 Benamghar, Radia 6 Bonfatti, Roberto 6 Galetovic P., Alexander 6 Griffiths, Charles 6 Gu, Yuan 6 Houghton, Stephanie 6 Jacob, Dieter 6 Jaworski, Taylor 6 Macchi, Patricia 6 Padró i Miquel, Gerard 6 Petracco, Carly 6 Poelhekke, Steven 6 Aretoulis, Georgios N. 5 Asher, Sam 5 Asturias, Jose 5 Brueckner, Jan K. 5 Chase, Robert S. 5 Dasgupta, Susmita 5 García-Santana, Manuel 5 Goswami, Arti Grover 5
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OECD 26 National Bureau of Economic Research 17 Asian Development Bank 10 Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen 10 World Bank 10 International Monetary Fund 9 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 9 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Verkehr 7 Deutschland / Bundesregierung 7 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen 5 Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Bundesminister für Verkehr 5 Forschungsgesellschaft für das Straßenwesen <Deutschland, Bundesrepublik> 5 Internationales Arbeitsamt 5 Permanent International Association of Road Congresses 5 United States / Congress / Senate / Committee on Public Works 5 World Road Congress 5 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung 4 USA / Highway Administration 4 Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft 3 Deutschland 3 Economic Development Institute 3 FAO / Expanded Technical Assistance Program 3 Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen / Arbeitsausschuß Straßenrecht 3 Forschungsinstitut für Öffentliche Verwaltung 3 International Conference on New Horizons in Roads and Road Transport <1995, Delhi> 3 International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations 3 Internationale Arbeitsorganisation 3 USA / Subcommittee on Transportation 3 United States / Congress / Senate / Committee on Public Works / Subcommittee on Roads 3 University of Roorkee / Civil Engineering Department 3 Vereinte Nationen / Wirtschaftskommission für Afrika 3 Weltbank 3 Weltbank / Environment, Infrastructure, and Agriculture Division 3 Weltbank / Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program 3 World Bank / Policy Research Dept / Environment, Infrastructure, and Agriculture Division 3 World Bank Group 3 Österreich / Rechnungshof 3 Adam Smith Institute 2 American Association of State Highway Officials 2 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation / Policy Support Unit 2
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Policy research working paper : WPS 31 Road transport research 22 NBER working paper series 17 World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 17 Forschung Straßenbau und Straßenverkehrstechnik : Forschungsberichte aus dem Forschungsprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr und Digitale Infrastruktur und der Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen e.V. 16 World Bank E-Library Archive 15 Discussion paper / Tinbergen Institute 13 NBER Working Paper 12 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 12 Internationales Verkehrswesen 10 Journal of urban economics 10 Publication / National Academy of Sciences ; National Research Council 10 IMF Staff Country Reports 9 Policy Research Working Paper 9 Policy research working paper 9 Journal of development economics 8 Journal of transport economics and policy 8 Working paper 8 International journal of project management : the journal of The International Project Management Association 7 Journal of infrastructure development 7 Special report / Highway Research Board 7 Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages / Drucksachen 7 Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs 6 Africa Region Findings &amp 6 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 6 European journal of operational research : EJOR 6 Networks and spatial economics : a journal of infrastructure modeling and computation 6 Transportation research / E : an international journal 6 CESifo working papers 5 Informationen Verkehrsplanung und Straßenwesen 5 OECD Publications 5 Policy Research working paper 5 The American economic review 5 Working paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research 5 Zeitschrift für Verkehrswissenschaft : ZfV 5 American journal of agricultural economics 4 Computers & operations research : and their applications to problems of world concern ; an international journal 4 Development policy review 4 Discussion paper series / IZA 4 Economics of transportation : the official journal of the International Transportation Economics Association 4
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Problems and prospects of development of the road transport complex : financing, management, innovation, quality, safety-integrated approach : monograph
Dmytriiev, Illia (ed.); Levchenko, Iaroslava (ed.) - 2021
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Do highway widenings reduce congestion?
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Ommeren, Jos van; Mourik, Henk van - 2022
Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of existing roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...
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The Impact of Ethiopia's Road Investment Program on Economic Development and Land Use : Evidence from Satellite Data
Alder, Simon - 2022
This paper studies the impacts of the large-scale Road Sector Development Program in Ethiopia between 1997 and 2016 on local economic activity and land cover (urbanization and cropland). It exploits spatial and temporal variation in road upgrades across Ethiopia, together with high-resolution...
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Roads, Electricity, and Jobs : Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Abbasi, Mansoureh - 2022
Evidence for road expansion and electrification as drivers of job creation is limited and mixed, with most studies having considered either one or the other, and only in isolation. This paper estimates the average and heterogeneous impacts of road and electricity investments and the interaction...
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How should we measure infrastructure? : the case of highways and streets
Kornfeld, Robert; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2022
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The Impact of Ethiopia's Road Investment Program on Economic Development and Land Use : Evidence from Satellite Data
Alder, Simon; Croke, Kevin; Duhaut, Alice; Marty, Robert; … - 2022
This paper studies the impacts of the large-scale Road Sector Development Program in Ethiopia between 1997 and 2016 on local economic activity and land cover (urbanization and cropland). It exploits spatial and temporal variation in road upgrades across Ethiopia, together with high-resolution...
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Roads, Electricity, and Jobs : Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Abbasi, Mansoureh; Lebrand, Mathilde Sylvie Maria; … - 2022
Evidence for road expansion and electrification as drivers of job creation is limited and mixed, with most studies having considered either one or the other, and only in isolation. This paper estimates the average and heterogeneous impacts of road and electricity investments and the interaction...
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Scaling Up Private Sector Participation in Road Asset Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank - 2022
The purpose of this study is to evaluate non-traditional means to raise additional private financing for the upgrade and maintenance of developing countries' road networks. To achieve this goal, it combines an in-depth review of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries' road funds' (RF) performance...
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Road to division : ethnic favouritism in the provision of road infrastructure in Ethiopia
Perra, Elena - 2022
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The social profitability of rural roads in a small open economy : do urban agglomeration economies matter?
Bell, Clive - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 101 (2022) 2, pp. 373-397
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Highway to hell? : Interstate Highway System and crime
Calamunci, Francesca; Lonsky, Jakub - 2022
The United States witnessed an unprecedented crime wave in the second half of the twentieth century, with the total index crime rate more than tripling between 1960-1980. Little is known about the causes of this surge in criminal activity across the country. This paper investigates the role...
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Regional economic effects of the Ring Road project in the Greater Tokyo Area : a spatial CGE approach
Ishikura, Tomoki; Yokoyama, Fuga - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 101 (2022) 4, pp. 811-837
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Roads to innovation : evidence from Italy
Bottasso, Anna; Conti, Maurizio; Robbiano, Simone; … - In: Journal of regional science 62 (2022) 4, pp. 981-1005
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Market access and firm performance : evidence based on GIS analysis of road network and manufacturing-plant-level data from India
Sharma, Somnath; Kant, Shashi; Mishra, Ranjeeta; … - 2022
This paper investigates whether better access to markets through an improved road network plays a role in improving the profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district boundaries, and nightlight raster images and...
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Detection of Bid Rigging in Procurement Auctions
Porter, Robert H.; Zona, J. Douglas - 2022
This paper examines bidding in auctions for state highway construction contracts on Long Island in the early 1980s, in order to determine whether bid rigging occurred. Detection of collusion is possible because of limited participation in the collusive scheme. The paper looks at differences in...
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The Gains from Market Integration the Welfare Effects of New Rural Roads in Ethiopia
kebede, hundanol atnafu; Kebede, Hundanol A. - 2022
Developing countries, such as SSA, often face a trade-off in investing in highways that interconnect cities vs. rural roads that connect rural villages to markets. Prioritization of either roads requires estimation of the welfare gains from each. This paper estimates the welfare gains from rural...
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The gendered impact of rural road improvement on schooling decisions and youth employment in Morocco
Shimamura, Yasuharu; Shimizutani, Satoshi; Yamada, Eiji; … - 2022
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Does highway access influence local employment? : evidence from German municipalities
Dörr, Luisa; Gäbler, Stefanie - 2022
We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...
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Scaling Up Private Sector Participation in Road Asset Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank Group - 2022
The purpose of this study is to evaluate non-traditional means to raise additional private financing for the upgrade and maintenance of developing countries' road networks. To achieve this goal, it combines an in-depth review of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries' road funds' (RF) performance...
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Highways and Globalization
Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl; Nigai, Sergey - 2022
This paper quantifies the value of US highways. We develop a multisector general equilibrium model with many locations in the United States (i.e., counties) and many countries. In the model, producers choose shipping routes subject to domestic and international trade costs, endogenous...
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Do highway widenings reduce congestion?
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; van Ommeren, Jos N.; van Mourik, Henk - 2022
Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of ex- isting roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...
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Assessing Causes of Time Overrun of Building and Road Construction Projects in Addis Ababa City ,Ethiopia
Negesa, Adamu Beyene - 2022
Since recent years, majority of the construction projects under taken in Addis Ababa City experience a varying magnitude of time overrun in which the projects become late in their completion. Due to different problems encountered during inception, design and implementation phases, the projects...
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Highways to Hell are Paved with Good Intentions : Road Building and Violence in Iraq
Gomez, Tamar - 2022
Infrastructure development programs, and specifically road building aid programs, have long been implemented alongside military interventions in conflict-affected countries. A common aim of these programs has been to reduce violence through increased economic development. This paper examines the...
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Improving Highway Traffic Performance : Merging Pattern Design of a Departure Zone after Tollbooths or Etc
Chen, Binbin; Li, Wei - 2022
There are two kinds of traffic congestion at a toll plaza on a highway: congestion in the approach zone and congestion in the departure zone, which has received less attention. The performance improvement in the departure zone can directly reduce congestion in that area and indirectly increase...
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Egypt’s national road project : assessing the economic impacts of the upgraded transportation network
Elshahawany, Dina N.; Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; Lahr, … - 2022
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An integrated investment appraisal of a road project in Zimbabwe
Adesina, Precious P.; Miklyaev, Mikhail - 2022
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Inter-district road infrastructure and spatial inequality in rural Indonesia
Ikhsan, Mohamad; Khoirunurrofik, Khoirunurrofik - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 9, pp. 1-20
Road quality plays an important role, especially in rural areas where most poor households are situated. This study aims to calculate the Rural Access Index (RAI), an indicator of rural road quality (SDG indicator 9.1.1), at the district level, to evaluate the implementation of the Nawacita...
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Using the methodology of network thinking to solve a problem situation on the example of road transport
Bekisz, Agnieszka; Kruszyński, Michał - In: European research studies 25 (2022) 3, pp. 30-45
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Roads, geography, and connectivity : economic impacts of road infrastructure in Georgia and Armenia
Pkhikidze, Nino - 2021
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Paving the way to modern growth : evidence from Bourbon roads in Spain
Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Herranz Loncán, Alfonso; … - 2021
This paper analyses the impact that Spanish road construction had on local population growth between 1787 and 1857. We find that the increase in market access associated to road accessibility had a substantial effect on local population growth. The impact was substantially higher on the...
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From ITS to C-ITS highway roadside infrastructure : the handicap of a headstart?
Degrande, Thibault; Vannieuwenborg, Frederic; Colle, Didier - 2021
To date, traffic remains a major source of societal costs in terms of safety and environment. In Flanders, as in other regions and Member States in the European Union, the government counts on current developments in cooperative, connected and autonomous mobility (CCAM) to achieve European...
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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
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Roads to change : livelihoods, land disputes, and anticipation of future developments in rural Kenya
Greiner, Clemens; Greven, David; Klagge, Britta - In: The European journal of development research 33 (2021) 4, pp. 1044-1068
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Análisis de conectividad vial en los países de la Región Andina
Astudillo Estévez, Pablo A. - 2021
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The automated driver as a new road user
Storsæter, Ane Dalsnes; Pitera, Kelly; McCormack, Edward D. - In: Transport reviews : a transnational transdisciplinary … 41 (2021) 5, pp. 533-555
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Take the highway? paved roads and well-being in Africa
Djemaï, Elodie; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2021
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Green Roads for Water : Guidelines for Road Infrastructure in Support of Water Management and Climate Resilience
van Steenbergen, Frank - 2021
Roads and water are generally seen as enemies, with water responsible for most of the damage to roads, and roads being a major cause of problems such as erosion, waterlogging, flooding, and dust storms. This tension, however, can be reversed. The concept of Green Roads for Water (also known as...
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Road transport in Poland : status and development prospects
Zakrzewski, Bartosz; Szopik-Depczyńska, Katarzyna - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 2B, pp. 276-289
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What drivers road infrastructure spending?
Alm, James; Dronyk-Trosper, Trey - 2021
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Management of infrastructure and traffic volume versus road traffic safety
Kozerska, Monika - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 3B, pp. 615-632
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Electoral incentives, investment in roads, and safety on local roads
Ferraresi, Massimiliano; Rizzo, Leonzio; Secomandi, Riccardo - 2021
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Engineering procurement construction in the context of belt and road infrastructure projects in West Asia : a SWOT analysis
Nikjow, Mohammad Ajmal; Liang, Li; Qi, Xijing; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 3/92, pp. 1-17
Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) is a normative practice globally approved since China has been engaging in international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure development. EPC has been adopted in the delivery of BRI infrastructure projects in other...
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Least-Present-Value-Of-Revenue Auctions and Highway Franchising
Engel, Eduardo M. R. A.; Galetovic, Alexander; Fischer, … - 2021
In recent years several countries have started massive highway franchising programs auctioned to private firms. In these auctions, the regulator typically sets the franchise term and firms bid on tolls, or, alternatively, the regulator sets tolls and the winner is the firm that asks for the...
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Korea’s Macroprudential Policies for Capital Flows : Accomplishments and Road to Improvement
An, Sungbae; Kang, Tae Soo; Kim, Kyunghun - 2021
In 2010, Korea’s authorities announced foreign exchange-related macroprudential measures (MPMs) aimed at building resilience against external financial shocks. These measures have greatly contributed to limit systemic risk by curbing excessive capital inflows. Twelve years have passed since...
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Life is a Highway : Addressing Legal Obstacles to Foster Youth Driving
Johnston-Walsh, Lucy - 2021
The simple and relatively mundane act of driving a car, which many of us take for granted, can have a profound impact on many aspects of adulthood. The ability to drive a car can provide a means to pursue education and employment, to earn income, and to ultimately obtain independence. As a young...
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Do Citizens Enforce Accountability for Public Goods Provision? Evidence from India’s Rural Roads Program
Goyal, Tanushree - 2021
While a vast literature examines the prevalence of ethnic voting and clientelism in low-income contexts, empirical tests of whether elections are being used to hold politicians accountable for public goods provision are few. Leveraging a rare exogenous variation in the World's largest rural...
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Evidences from the Brazilian Federal Highway Concession Program on economic development
Romano, Patrícia; Sampaio, Raquel; Costa Carvalho, … - 2021
The Brazilian Federal Highway Concession Program use concessionaries to manage roads. They are bound by contract to improve the quality of road corridors and, in return, they are allowed to charge tolls. This article aims to analyze the effects of this Program on the economic performance of...
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Winner's Curse and Entry in Highway Procurement
De Silva, Dakshina G.; Rosa, Benjamin - 2021
In procurement auctions, there are situations where a bidder's cost is uncertain at the time of bidding, leading to a "winner's curse." We use bridgework data from the State of Oklahoma and an empirical auction model to explore whether the winner's curse also affects entry, which can have...
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Can Indian Highways Be Transformed from Killer-Ways to Safe-Ways? Dire Need for a Multi-Pronged Government Strategy
S, Sudeep Kumar; Iyer, Vishwanathan - 2021
Having earned the dubious distinction of being ranked No.1 amongst 199 countries for having the highest number of road accidents annually since the year 2016, India stares at a problem of gargantuan proportions. In the year 2019 alone, there were as many as 449,002 occurrences, resulting in...
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