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Sam Asher

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Elliott Ash & Sam Asher & Aditi Bhowmick & Sandeep Bhupatiraju & Daniel L. Chen & Tatanya Devi & Christoph Goessmann & Paul Novosad & Bilal Siddiqi, 2023. "Measuring Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary," Working Papers hal-03921979, HAL.

    Cited by:

    1. Cai, Xiqian & Chen, Shuai & Cheng, Zhengquan, 2024. "The #Metoo Movement and Judges' Gender Gap in Decisions," IZA Discussion Papers 17115, IZA Network @ LISER.
    2. Cai, Xiqian & Chen, Shuai & Cheng, Zhengquan, 2024. "The #MeToo Movement and Judges' Gender Gap in Decisions," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1453, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

  2. Asher,Sam & Lunt,Tobias & Matsuura,Ryu & Novosad,Paul Michael, 2021. "Development Research at High Geographic Resolution : An Analysis of Night Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9540, The World Bank.

    Cited by:

    1. Somdeep Chatterjee & Pushkar Maitra & Manhar Manchanda, 2024. "The Relevant Third: Threat of Coalition and Economic Development," Monash Economics Working Papers 2024-13, Monash University, Department of Economics.
    2. Amarasinghe, Ashani & Hodler, Roland & Raschky, Paul A. & Zenou, Yves, 2024. "Key players in economic development," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 223(C), pages 40-56.
    3. Alexandre d'Aspremont & Simon Ben Arous & Jean-Charles Bricongne & Benjamin Lietti & Baptiste Meunier, 2024. "Satellites turn “concrete”: Tracking cement with satellite data and neural networks," Post-Print hal-05104995, HAL.
    4. Mondal, Bandana & Sarkhel, Prasenjit, 2024. "Empowerment or Endangerment? The Nutritional Consequences of Female Employment in Rural India," EconStor Preprints 305191, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    5. Kammerlander, Andreas & Schulze, Günther G., 2023. "Local economic growth and infant mortality," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    6. Diep Hoang Phan, 2023. "Lights and GDP relationship: What does the computer tell us?," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 65(3), pages 1215-1252, September.
    7. Shreya Biswas & Upasak Das & Sandhya Garg, 2024. "Growing with greener pastures: Examining the role of graduate politicians on forest cover in India," IEG Working Papers 463, Institute of Economic Growth.
    8. Singh, Tejendra Pratap, 2024. "Pharmacy Access and Health-seeking Behavior: Evidence from a Nationwide Policy," OSF Preprints pjvgd, Center for Open Science.
    9. Gallé, Johannes & Overbeck, Daniel & Riedel, Nadine & Seidel, Tobias, 2024. "Place-based policies, structural change and female labor: Evidence from India’s Special Economic Zones," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 240(C).
    10. Balietti, Anca & Jaiswal, Sreeja & Schäffer, Daniel, 2024. "Labor market impacts of eco-development initiatives in protected areas," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    11. Giorgio Chiovelli & Stelios Michalopoulus & Elias Papaioannou & Tanner Regan, 2025. "Illuminating the Global South," Working Papers 2025-009, The George Washington University, The Center for Economic Research.
    12. Iversen, Vegard & Kundu, Anustup & Lahoti, Rahul & Sen, Kunal, 2023. "Barriers or Catalysts? Traditional Institutions and Social Mobility in Rural India," IZA Discussion Papers 16601, IZA Network @ LISER.
    13. Makkar, Karan, 2023. "Defector Politicians and Economic Growth: Evidence from India," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    14. Mauro Lanati & Rainer Thiele, 2025. "The Impact of Regional Growth on Internal Migration: A District-Level Analysis for Malawi," Working Papers - Economics wp2025_15.rdf, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa.
    15. Chor, Davin & Li, Bingjing, 2024. "Illuminating the effects of the US-China tariff war on China’s economy," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
    16. Thai, Giang, 2025. "Female Politicians andWomen’s Labor Market Dynamics," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO 361016, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    17. Kukreja, Rolly, 2024. "Does representation affect trust in political institutions?: Evidence from redistricting in India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    18. Dhamija, Gaurav & Gupta, Sagnik Kumar & Ojha, Manini, 2025. "The Protective Power of Connectivity: Internet Exposure and Intimate Partner Violence," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1690, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    19. Shagnik Chakravarty, 2024. "Income Risk and Education Investment: Evidence from India," CSAE Working Paper Series 2024-04, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    20. Sudatta Ray & Hemant K. Pullabhotla, 2023. "The changing impact of rural electrification on Indian agriculture," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-12, December.
    21. Priyaranjan Jha & Karan Talathi, 2025. "Regional Autonomy and Development: Evidence from Madhya Pradesh – Chhattisgarh Split in India," CESifo Working Paper Series 12264, CESifo.
    22. Teevrat Garg & Maulik Jagnani & Hemant K. Pullabhotla, 2024. "Rural Roads, Farm Labor Exits, and Crop Fires," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 16(3), pages 420-450, August.
    23. Viktoria Hnatkovska, Chenyu Hou and Amartya Lahiri, 2024. "Convergence Across Castes," Discussion Papers dp24-10, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University.
    24. Digvijay S. Negi, 2024. "State Mediated Trade, Distortions and Air Pollution," Working Papers 129, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
    25. Bhukta, Rikhia & Pakrashi, Debayan & Saha, Sarani & Sedai, Ashish, 2024. "Community electrification and women’s autonomy," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    26. Kukreja, Rolly, 2024. "The political economy of education: Politician criminality and higher education institutions," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    27. Barthélémy Bonadio, 2024. "Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes," CESifo Working Paper Series 11383, CESifo.
    28. Bortolotti, Luca & Marson, Marta & Saccone, Donatella, 2024. "Food and the forest: A spatial analysis on the nexus between foreign direct investment and deforestation," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    29. Sebastian Jävervall & Roza Khoban, 2025. "The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 17(3), pages 1-41, July.
    30. Jain, Chandan & Kashyap, Shagun & Lahoti, Rahul & Sahoo, Soham, 2023. "The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 1068-1093.
    31. Iyer, Lakshmi & Weir, Coleson, 2024. "The Colonial Legacy in India: How Persistent Are the Effects of Historical Institutions?," IZA Discussion Papers 17051, IZA Network @ LISER.
    32. Ratnoo, Vigyan D., 2024. "Persistent effects of colonial land tenure institutions: Village-level evidence from India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    33. De La Rupelle, Maëlys & Dumas, Christelle, 2025. "Sterilizations and women health in India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    34. Arteaga, Julian & Deininger, Klaus, 2025. "Yield Gains from Balancing Fertilizer Use: Evidence from Eastern India," 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO 361015, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    35. Merfeld, Joshua D., 2023. "Air Pollution and Agricultural Productivity in a Developing Country," IZA Discussion Papers 16316, IZA Network @ LISER.
    36. Sandhya Garg & Samarth Gupta & Sushanta Mallick, 2023. "Does Social Identity Constrain Rural Entrepreneurship? The Role of Financial Inclusion," IEG Working Papers 460, Institute of Economic Growth.
    37. Kyrychenko, Olexiy, 2024. "Health benefits of air pollution reduction: Evidence from economic slowdown in India," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 55(C).
    38. Somdeep Chatterjee & Manhar Manchanda, 2025. "Who benefits from appeals to vote? Evidence from a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign in India," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 204(3), pages 483-527, September.
    39. Gupta, Rajesh & Anand, Arjun, 2025. "Is mobility transition driven by wealth inequality? Evidence from analysis of the electric two-wheelers adoption in India," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
    40. Beyer, Robert C.M. & Jain, Tarun & Sinha, Sonalika, 2023. "Lights out? COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    41. Ishita Varma, 2025. "Forest rights, dietary diversity and nutritional security of tribal communities: Evidence from India," Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers 2025-012, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India.
    42. Boudot-Reddy, Camille & Butler, André, 2024. "Paving the road to re-election," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 239(C).
    43. GIBSON, John & ZHANG, Xiaoxuan & PARK, Albert & YI, Jiang & XI, Li, 2024. "Remotely measuring rural economic activity and poverty : Do we just need better sensors?," CEI Working Paper Series 2023-08, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    44. Dhamija, Gaurav & Roychowdhury, Punarjit & Shankar, Binay, 2023. "Urbanization and Women Empowerment: Evidence from India," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1323, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    45. Tanner Regan & Giorgio Chiovelli & Stelios Michalopoulos & Elias Papaioannou, 2023. "Illuminating Africa?," Working Papers 2023-11, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.
    46. Kaivan Munshi & Swapnil Singh, 2024. "Social Status, Economic Development and Female Labor Force (Non) Participation," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 2417, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    47. Arteaga,Julian & Deininger, Klaus W., 2025. "Yield Gains from Balancing Fertilizer Use : Evidence from Eastern India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11134, The World Bank.

  3. Maoliang Ye & Jie Zheng & Plamen Nikolov & Sam Asher, 2020. "One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?," Papers 2006.01386, arXiv.org.

    Cited by:

    1. Peter H. Kriss & Roberto Weber, 2013. "Organizational formation and change: lessons from economic laboratory experiments," Chapters, in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, chapter 14, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Otten, Kasper & Buskens, Vincent & Przepiorka, Wojtek & Cherki, Boaz & Israel, Salomon, 2024. "Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
    3. Shakun D. Mago & Jennifer Pate, 2023. "Greed and fear: Competitive and charitable priming in a threshold volunteer's dilemma," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(1), pages 138-161, January.
    4. Gallier, Carlo & Sturm, Bodo, 2020. "The ratchet effect in social dilemmas," ZEW Discussion Papers 20-015, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    5. Yoshio Kamijo & Hiroki Ozono & Kazumi Shimizu, 2015. "A mechanism overcoming coordination failure based on gradualism and endogeneity," Working Papers SDES-2015-11, Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management, revised Jan 2015.
    6. Chun‐Lei Yang & Mao‐Long Xu & Juanjuan Meng & Fang‐Fang Tang, 2017. "Efficient Large‐Size Coordination Via Voluntary Group Formation: An Experiment," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 58(2), pages 651-668, May.
    7. Hua, Xiameng & Watson, Joel, 2022. "Starting small in project choice: A discrete-time setting with a continuum of types," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 204(C).
    8. Heijmans, Roweno J.R.K. & Suetens, Sigrid, 2025. "Comparing Subsidies to Solve Coordination Failure," Discussion Papers 2025/9, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science.
    9. Yoshio Kamijo & Hiroki Ozono & Kazumi Shimizu, 2016. "Overcoming coordination failure using a mechanism based on gradualism and endogeneity," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 19(1), pages 202-217, March.
    10. Freeman, Richard B. & Pan, Xiaofei & Yang, Xiaolan & Ye, Maoliang, 2025. "Team incentives and lower ability workers: A real-effort experiment," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    11. Bao, Te & Zong, Jichuan, 2019. "The impact of interest rate policy on individual expectations and asset bubbles in experimental markets," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 107(C), pages 1-1.
    12. Yoshio Kamijo & Hiroki Ozono & Kazumi Shimizu, 2014. "A Mechanism That Overcomes Coordination Failure Based on Gradualism, Endogeneity, and Modification," Working Papers 1401, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics.
    13. Nikolov, Plamen, 2022. "Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers – 2021-2022 Edition," IZA Discussion Papers 15057, IZA Network @ LISER.
    14. Jorge N. Zumaeta, 2025. "Economic Attitudes and Financial Decisions Among Welfare Recipients: Considerations for Workforce Policy," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 18(8), pages 1-20, July.
    15. Gallier, Carlo & Sturm, Bodo, 2021. "The ratchet effect in social dilemmas," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 186(C), pages 251-268.
    16. Nikolov, Plamen, 2020. "Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers," MPRA Paper 105088, University Library of Munich, Germany.

  4. Sam Asher & Denis Nekipelov & Paul Novosad & Stephen P. Ryan, 2016. "Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models," NBER Working Papers 22976, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Guber, Raphael, 2018. "Instrument Validity Tests with Causal Trees: With an Application to the Same-sex Instrument," MEA discussion paper series 201805, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
    2. Miller, Steve, 2020. "Causal forest estimation of heterogeneous and time-varying environmental policy effects," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    3. Susan Athey, 2018. "The Impact of Machine Learning on Economics," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, pages 507-547, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Daria Loginova & Stefan Mann, 2023. "Measuring stability and structural breaks: Applications in social sciences," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(2), pages 302-320, April.
    5. Timmins, Christopher & Vissing, Ashley, 2022. "Environmental justice and Coasian bargaining: The role of race, ethnicity, and income in lease negotiations for shale gas," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).

  5. Asher, Sam & Casaburi, Lorenzo & Nikolov, Plamen & Ye, Maoliang, 2009. "One Step at a Time: Do Threshold Patterns Matter in Public Good Provision?," Economics Discussion Papers 2009-5, Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

    Cited by:

    1. Urs Fischbacher & Werner G�th & M. Vittoria Levati, 2011. "Crossing the Point of No Return: A Public Goods Experiment," TWI Research Paper Series 72, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut, Universität Konstanz.
    2. Rawadee Jarungrattapong & Suparee Boonmanunt, 2016. "Altruism, Cooperation and Trust: Other-regarding Behavior and Collective Actions in Thailand," EEPSEA Research Report rr20160332, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), revised Mar 2016.

  6. Asher, Sam & Garg, Teevrat & Novosad, Paul, "undated". "The Ecological Footprint of Transportation Infrastructure," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274246, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

    Cited by:

    1. Garg, Teevrat, 2019. "Ecosystems and human health: The local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    2. Shreya Biswas & Upasak Das, 2021. "Adding fuel to human capital: Exploring the educational effects of cooking fuel choice from rural India," Papers 2106.01815, arXiv.org.
    3. Jung, Suhyun & Rogers, Martha, 2024. "Mobile phone adoption, deforestation, and agricultural land use in Uganda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 179(C).
    4. Burgess, Robin & Costa, Francisco J M & Olken, Ben, 2019. "The Brazilian Amazon’s Double Reversal of Fortune," SocArXiv 67xg5, Center for Open Science.
    5. Kaczan, David J., 2020. "Can roads contribute to forest transitions?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).

Articles

  1. Sam Asher & Paul Novosad, 2023. "Rent-Seeking and Criminal Politicians: Evidence from Mining Booms," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 105(1), pages 20-39, January.

    Cited by:

    1. Čellárová, Katarína & Staněk, Rostislav, 2024. "Contest and resource allocation: An experimental analysis of entitlement and self-selection effects," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    2. Siddiqui, Niloufer & Stommes, Drew & Waseem, Zoha, 2024. "Illicit gains and state capture: Political party extortion in India and Pakistan," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 183(C).
    3. Sørensen, Rune J., 2024. "Are politicians more generous? Evidence from charitable giving," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 227(C).
    4. Chakrabarti, Prasenjit & Kaur, Jasmeet, 2024. "Zombie-lending during the pandemic in India: Did the Central Bank reduce credit misallocation concerns of forbearance?," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 46(1), pages 153-170.
    5. Rohit Ticku, 2023. "Votes for Sale," RSCAS Working Papers 2023/55, European University Institute.
    6. Du, Weijian & Fan, Yuhuan & Liang, Sunfan & Li, Mengjie, 2023. "The power of belief: Religious traditions and rent-seeking of polluting enterprises in China," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    7. Singh, Sanjeet & Bhardwaj, Meenu & Mahendru, Mandeep & Bansal, Pooja & Roszko-Wójtowicz, Elżbieta, 2024. "Exploring economic development and mineral rents nexus across BRICS nations: Fresh insights from multiple threshold panel analysis," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    8. Laura Mayoral & Hannes Mueller, 2025. "Rents, Rules or Revolution: A Survey of Institutional Pathways to Peace," Working Papers 1511, Barcelona School of Economics.
    9. Aragón, Fernando M. & Winkler, Hernan, 2023. "The long-term impact of a resource-based fiscal windfall: Evidence from the Peruvian canon," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 87(PA).
    10. Boubakri, Narjess & Durnev, Art & Oliveira dos Santos, Igor, 2025. "State ownership and financial reporting quality: Evidence from natural advantage industries," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    11. Rodríguez-Puello, Gabriel, 2024. "Digging for Trouble? Uncovering the Link Between Mining Booms and Crime," OSF Preprints s8ayp, Center for Open Science.
    12. Massimo Morelli & Dominic Rohner, 2023. "Natural resources and conflict: The crucial role of power mismatch and geographic asymmetries," Working Papers 698, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.

  2. Paul Novosad & Charlie Rafkin & Sam Asher, 2022. "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 14(4), pages 1-34, October.

    Cited by:

    1. David Powell, 2025. "Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 38(3), pages 1-31, September.
    2. Bavafa, Hessam & Mukherjee, Anita & Welch, Tyler Q., 2023. "Inequality in the golden years: Wealth gradients in disability-free and work-free longevity in the United States," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    3. Marcin Wroński, 2024. "Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Poland in the Long Run: Education as a Positional Good," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(3), pages 317-339, May.
    4. Anne Case & Angus Deaton, 2023. "Accounting for the Widening Mortality Gap Between Adult Americans with and without a BA," NBER Working Papers 31236, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Raj Chetty & Will Dobbie & Benjamin Goldman & Sonya R. Porter & Crystal S. Yang, 2024. "Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility," Working Papers 24-38, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    6. Amy Finkelstein & Geoffrey Kocks & Maria Polyakova & Victoria Udalova, 2022. "Heterogeneity in Damages from A Pandemic," NBER Working Papers 30658, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Hui Zheng & Yoonyoung Choi & Taehyun Ethan Kim, 2025. "Uncovering the underlying causes for the narrowing, stalling, and widening Black–White mortality gap from 2000 to 2022 in the United States," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 52(18), pages 535-558.

  3. Asher, Sam & Bhowmick, Aditi & Campion, Alison & Lunt, Tobias & Novosad, Paul, 2022. "Big, Open Data for Development: A Vision for India," India Policy Forum, National Council of Applied Economic Research, vol. 18(1), pages 1-52.

    Cited by:

    1. Dang, Hai Anh H. & Jolliffe, Dean & Serajuddin, Umar & Stacy, Brian, 2024. "Country statistical capacity: a recent assessment tool and further reflections on the way forward," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 124060, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

  4. Sam Asher & Tobias Lunt & Ryu Matsuura & Paul Novosad, 2021. "Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 35(4), pages 845-871.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  5. Maoliang Ye & Jie Zheng & Plamen Nikolov & Sam Asher, 2020. "One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 66(1), pages 113-129, January.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  6. Sam Asher & Paul Novosad, 2020. "Rural Roads and Local Economic Development," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(3), pages 797-823, March.

    Cited by:

    1. Xu, Fei & Li, Qiangyi & Yang, Mian, 2022. "The impacts of high-speed rail on the transformation of resource-based cities in China: A market segmentation perspective," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    2. Maria Vagliasindi & Nisan Gorgulu, 2025. "Disentangling the Key Economic Channels through Which Infrastructure Affects Jobs," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11096, The World Bank.
    3. Chatterjee, Santanu & Lebesmuehlbacher, Thomas & Narayanan, Abhinav, 2025. "Road infrastructure and skill premium: Evidence from Indian manufacturing," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    4. Bagga,Aanchal & Holmlund,Marcus Erik & Khan,Nausheen & Subha,Mani & Mvukiyehe,Eric & Premand,Patrick, 2023. "Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts ? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10471, The World Bank.
    5. Stein, Merlin, 2021. "Re-evaluating RCTs with nightlights - An example from biometric smartcards in India," University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics 152, University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics.
    6. Gertler, Paul J & Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco & Gracner, Tadeja & Rothenberg, Alexander, 2023. "Road Maintenance and Local Economic Development," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt38m633q0, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
    7. Amarasinghe, Ashani & Hodler, Roland & Raschky, Paul A. & Zenou, Yves, 2024. "Key players in economic development," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 223(C), pages 40-56.
    8. Ferreira, Francisco H. G. & Galasso, Emanuela & Negre, Mario, 2018. "Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and Some Policy Examples," IZA Discussion Papers 11571, IZA Network @ LISER.
    9. Tao Bu & Daisheng Tang, 2025. "Transportation infrastructure and good health in urban China," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-18, December.
    10. Luisito Bertinelli & Evie Graus & Jean-François Maystadt & Silvia Peracchi, 2025. "Roads and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa," DEM Discussion Paper Series 25-18, Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg.
    11. Van Leemput, Eva, 2021. "A passage to India: Quantifying internal and external barriers to trade," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    12. Apoorv Gupta & Jacopo Ponticelli & Andrea Tesei, 2019. "Technology Adoption and Access to Credit via Mobile Phones," Working Papers 892, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
    13. Wu, Mingqin & Yu, Linhui & Zhang, Junsen, 2023. "Road expansion, allocative efficiency, and pro-competitive effect of transport infrastructure: Evidence from China," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
    14. Altindag, Onur & Erten, Bilge & Keskin, Pinar, 2021. "Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey," IZA Discussion Papers 14281, IZA Network @ LISER.
    15. Silvia, Marchesi & Tania, Masi, 2019. "Allocation of implementing power: Evidence from World Bank projects," Working Papers 399, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised Jan 2019.
    16. Basistha, Ahana & Dhillon, Amrita & Chaudhuri, Arka Roy, 2024. "Elections and Rural Road Construction: Evidence from India," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 712, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    17. Min Min & Chen Lin & Xuejun Duan & Zhifeng Jin & Luocheng Zhang, 2021. "Research on targeted land poverty alleviation patterns based on the precise identification of dominant factors of rural poverty: a case study of Siyang County, Jiangsu Province, China," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(9), pages 12791-12813, September.
    18. Kafle, Kashi & Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Winters, Paul, 2021. "Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain investment by gender and ethnicity: The case of Nepal," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 313941, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    19. Lu, Haiyan & Zhao, Pengjun & Hu, Haoyu & Yan, Jie & Chen, Xiaoping, 2023. "Exploring the heterogeneous impact of road infrastructure on rural residents’ income: Evidence from nationwide panel data in China," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 155-166.
    20. Braulio Britos & Manuel Hernandez & Danilo Trupkin, 2025. "From farms to borders: Agricultural distortions and international migration," Working Papers 174, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia, revised Dec 2025.
    21. Lagakos, David & Marshall, Samuel & Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq & Vernot, Corey & Waugh, Michael E., 2020. "Migration costs and observational returns to migration in the developing world," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 138-154.
    22. Songsermsawas, Tisorn & Kafle, Kashi & Winters, Paul, 2023. "Decomposing the impacts of an agricultural value chain development project by ethnicity and gender in Nepal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 168(C).
    23. TANAKA,Kiyoyasu, 2024. "From Walking to Driving: Economic Impact of Mountain Roads," IDE Discussion Papers 949, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
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