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Prottoy Aman Akbar

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First Name:Prottoy
Middle Name:Aman
Last Name:Akbar
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RePEc Short-ID:pak283
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https://www.prottoyamanakbar.com/
Twitter: @prottoyakbar
Bluesky: @prottoyakbar.bsky.social
Terminal Degree:2021 Department of Economics; University of Pittsburgh (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(2%) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom
http://www.cepr.org/
RePEc:edi:cebruuk (more details at EDIRC)

(12%) Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Helsinki, Finland
https://www.helsinkigse.fi/
RePEc:edi:hgsehfi (more details at EDIRC)

(18%) Kauppakorkeakoulu
Aalto-yliopisto

Helsinki, Finland
http://biz.aalto.fi/
RePEc:edi:hkkkkfi (more details at EDIRC)

(68%) Taloustieteen Laitos
Kauppakorkeakoulu
Aalto-yliopisto

Helsinki, Finland
http://economics.aalto.fi/
RePEc:edi:khkkkfi (more details at EDIRC)

Research output

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Working papers

  1. Akbar, Prottoy & Couture, Victor, 2025. "Mobility, Segregation and Inequality: Who Gains from Urban Transportation Improvements?," CEPR Discussion Papers 20803, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  2. Akbar, Prottoy, 2024. "Public Transit Access and Income Segregation," CEPR Discussion Papers 19558, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  3. Akbar, Prottoy & Couture, Victor & Duranton, Gilles & Storeygard, Adam, 2023. "The fast, the slow, and the congested: Urban transportation in rich and poor countries," CEPR Discussion Papers 18401, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  4. Burger,Martijn & Ianchovichina,Elena & Akbar,Prottoy Aman, 2022. "Heterogeneous Agglomeration Economies in the Developing Countries : The Roles of FirmCharacteristics, Sector Tradability, and Urban Mobility," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9954, The World Bank.
  5. Prottoy A. Akbar & Sijie Li & Allison Shertzer & Randall P. Walsh, 2019. "Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth," NBER Working Papers 25805, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Duranton, Gilles & Couture, Victor & Akbar, Prottoy A. & Storeygard, Adam, 2018. "Mobility and congestion in urban India," CEPR Discussion Papers 13291, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  7. Carpenter, Jeffrey P. & Robbett, Andrea & Akbar, Prottoy, 2016. "Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting," IZA Discussion Papers 9946, IZA Network @ LISER.

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Articles

  1. Prottoy A. Akbar, 2025. "Public Transit Access and Income Segregation," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 66(4), pages 1525-1560, October.
  2. Prottoy A. Akbar & Sijie Li Hickly & Allison Shertzer & Randall P. Walsh, 2025. "Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 107(1), pages 42-54, January.
  3. Prottoy Akbar & Victor Couture & Gilles Duranton & Adam Storeygard, 2023. "Mobility and Congestion in Urban India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 113(4), pages 1083-1111, April.
  4. Jeffrey Carpenter & Andrea Robbett & Prottoy A. Akbar, 2018. "Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 64(9), pages 4261-4276, September.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Akbar, Prottoy & Couture, Victor & Duranton, Gilles & Storeygard, Adam, 2023. "The fast, the slow, and the congested: Urban transportation in rich and poor countries," CEPR Discussion Papers 18401, Centre for Economic Policy Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Chen, Liming & Hasan, Rana & Jiang, Yi & Parkhomenko, Andrii, 2024. "Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    2. Hanson, Gordon H. & Moretti, Enrico, 2025. "Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? Changes in the Geography of Work in the U.S., 1980-2021," SocArXiv z6qkn_v1, Center for Open Science.
    3. Andres García-Suaza & Daniela Varela, 2024. "Nightlight, landcover and buildings: understanding intracity socioeconomic differences," Documentos de Trabajo 21025, Universidad del Rosario.
    4. Gilles Duranton & Diego Puga, 2023. "Urban Growth and Its Aggregate Implications," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 91(6), pages 2219-2259, November.
    5. Raian Kudashev & Pierre M. Picard, 2025. "Welfare Effects of Congestion in Luxembourg and the Greater Region," DEM Discussion Paper Series 25-17, Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg.

  2. Burger,Martijn & Ianchovichina,Elena & Akbar,Prottoy Aman, 2022. "Heterogeneous Agglomeration Economies in the Developing Countries : The Roles of FirmCharacteristics, Sector Tradability, and Urban Mobility," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9954, The World Bank.

    Cited by:

    1. Jedwab, Remi & Ianchovichina, Elena & Haslop, Federico, 2025. "The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).

  3. Prottoy A. Akbar & Sijie Li & Allison Shertzer & Randall P. Walsh, 2019. "Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth," NBER Working Papers 25805, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Ellora Derenoncourt & Chi Hyun Kim & Moritz Kuhn & Moritz Schularick, 2024. "Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 139(2), pages 693-750.
    2. Jones, Maggie E.C. & Logan, Trevon D. & Rosé, David & Cook, Lisa D., 2024. "Black-Friendly businesses in cities during the Civil Rights Era," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    3. Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Dylan Connor, 2020. "Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office," Working Papers 2020-35, Princeton University. Economics Department..
    4. Jessica LaVoice & Domonkos F. Vamossy, 2019. "Racial Disparities in Debt Collection," Papers 1910.02570, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2023.
    5. Juan Carlos Lopez, 2022. "Will Increasing Housing Supply Reduce Urban Inequality?," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 45(4), pages 383-416, July.
    6. Peter Christensen & Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri & Christopher Timmins, 2020. "Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States: Evidence from the Rental Market," NBER Working Papers 26805, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Matthew E. Kahn, 2024. "Racial and ethnic differences in the financial returns to home purchases," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 52(3), pages 908-927, May.
    8. Peter Christensen & Ignacio Sarmiento-Barbieri & Christopher Timmins, 2022. "Racial Discrimination and Housing Outcomes in the United States Rental Marke," Working Papers 152, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
    9. Fishback, Price & Rose, Jonathan & Snowden, Kenneth A. & Storrs, Thomas, 2024. "New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    10. Shertzer, Allison & Twinam, Tate & Walsh, Randall P., 2022. "Zoning and segregation in urban economic history," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    11. Sean Lewis-Faupel & Nicholas Tenev, 2024. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortgage Lending: New Evidence from Expanded HMDA Data," Papers 2405.00895, arXiv.org.
    12. Guillaume G.C. Chapelle & Gerard Domènech-Arumí & Paula Eugenia Gobbi, 2023. "Housing, Neighborhoods and Inequality," Working Papers ECARES 2023-06, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    13. Ran Abramitzky & Leah Platt Boustan & Dylan Connor, 2020. "Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office," NBER Working Papers 27372, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

  4. Duranton, Gilles & Couture, Victor & Akbar, Prottoy A. & Storeygard, Adam, 2018. "Mobility and congestion in urban India," CEPR Discussion Papers 13291, Centre for Economic Policy Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Gilles Duranton & Geetika Nagpal & Matthew A. Turner, 2020. "Transportation Infrastructure in the US," NBER Chapters, in: Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment, pages 165-210, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Peng, Cong, 2019. "Does e-commerce reduce traffic congestion? Evidence from Alibaba Single Day shopping event," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 103411, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Santonab Chakraborty & Sayantan Ghosh & Subham Agarwal & Shankar Chakraborty, 2021. "An integrated performance evaluation approach for the Indian smart cities," OPSEARCH, Springer;Operational Research Society of India, vol. 58(4), pages 906-941, December.
    4. Henderson, J. Vernon & Turner, Matthew A., 2020. "Urbanization in the developing world: too early or too slow?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 105010, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Yizhen Gu & Chang Jiang & Junfu Zhang & Ben Zou, 2021. "Subways and Road Congestion," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 83-115, April.
    6. Chen, Liming & Hasan, Rana & Jiang, Yi & Parkhomenko, Andrii, 2024. "Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    7. Paul Blanchard & Douglas Gollin & Martina Kirchberger, 2023. "Perpetual Motion: High-Frequency Human Mobility in Three African Countries," Trinity Economics Papers tep0823, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.
    8. Kala Seetharam Sridhar & Shivakumar Nayka, 2022. "Determinants of Commute Time in an Indian City," Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, National Council of Applied Economic Research, vol. 16(1), pages 49-75, February.
    9. Liotta, Charlotte & Viguié, Vincent & Lepetit, Quentin, 2022. "Testing the monocentric standard urban model in a global sample of cities," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    10. Delventhal, Matthew J. & Kwon, Eunjee & Parkhomenko, Andrii, 2022. "JUE Insight: How do cities change when we work from home?," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
    11. Henderson, J. Vernon & Thisse, Jacques-François, 2024. "Urban and spatial economics after 50 years," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    12. Brandily, P. & Rauch, F., 2024. "Within‐city roads and urban growth," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122580, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    13. Gallé, Johannes, 2023. "City Shape and Air Pollution," Ruhr Economic Papers 1012, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen.
    14. Kirchberger, Martina, 2021. "Measuring internal migration," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    15. Henderson, J. Vernon & Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya & Kriticos, Sebastian, 2021. "Measuring urban economic density," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    16. Ang, Amanda & Christensen, Peter & Vieira, Renato, 2020. "Should congested cities reduce their speed limits? Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
    17. Andres García-Suaza & Daniela Varela, 2024. "Nightlight, landcover and buildings: understanding intracity socioeconomic differences," Documentos de Trabajo 21025, Universidad del Rosario.
    18. Arcos, Ariel & Lara, Bernardo & Paredes, Dusan, 2025. "Enhancing private transportation: The positive spillovers from Santiago’s subway expansion," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    19. Patacchini, Eleonora & Barwick, Panle Jia & Liu, Yanyan & Wu, Qi, 2019. "Information, Mobile Communication, and Referral Effects," CEPR Discussion Papers 13786, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
    20. Antonio Bento & Kevin Roth & Andrew R. Waxman, 2020. "The Value of Urgency: Evidence from Real-Time Congestion Pricing," NBER Working Papers 26956, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    21. Brooks, Leah & Denoeux, Genevieve, 2022. "What if you build it and they don't come? How the ghost of transit past haunts transit present," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    22. Bencsik, Panka & Lusher, Lester & Taylor, Rebecca L.C., 2025. "Slow traffic, fast food: The effects of time lost on food store choice," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    23. Albert Saiz & Luyao Wang, 2023. "Physical geography and traffic delays: Evidence from a major coastal city," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 50(1), pages 218-243, September.
    24. Cong Peng, 2019. "Does e-commerce reduce traffic congestion? Evidence from Alibaba Single Day shopping event," CEP Discussion Papers dp1646, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    25. V. Licio & A. Pinna, 2025. "Accessibility across Italy: A grid cell approach," Working Paper CRENoS 202501, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
    26. Maria Bas & Ana Margarida Fernandes & Caroline Paunov, 2022. "How Resilient Was Trade to Covid-19?," CESifo Working Paper Series 9652, CESifo.
    27. Esch, Thomas & Deininger, Klaus & Jedwab, Remi & Palacios-Lopez, Daniela, 2025. "Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 188(C).
    28. Gabriel Kreindler, 2024. "Peak‐Hour Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 92(4), pages 1233-1268, July.
    29. Chen, Ting & Gu, Yizhen & Zou, Ben, 2024. "China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).

  5. Carpenter, Jeffrey P. & Robbett, Andrea & Akbar, Prottoy, 2016. "Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting," IZA Discussion Papers 9946, IZA Network @ LISER.

    Cited by:

    1. Boosey, Luke & Isaac, R. Mark & Ramalingam, Abhijit, 2024. "Limiting the leader: Fairness concerns and opportunism in team production," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 209-244.
    2. Gilberto Tadeu Lima & Jaylson Jair Silveira, 2021. "Evolutionary microdynamics of employee profit sharing as productivity-enhancing device," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 417-449, April.
    3. David Masclet & Claude Montmarquette & Nathalie Viennot-Briot, 2019. "Can Whistleblower Programs Reduce Tax Evasion? Experimental Evidence," Post-Print halshs-02301968, HAL.
    4. Bayo-Moriones, Alberto & Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique & Martinez-de-Morentin, Sara, 2024. "Complements or Substitutes? Examining the Relationship between Teamwork and Selection Intensity," IZA Discussion Papers 16876, IZA Network @ LISER.
    5. Josse Delfgaauw & Robert Dur & Oke Onemu & Joeri Sol, 2022. "Team Incentives, Social Cohesion, and Performance: A Natural Field Experiment," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(1), pages 230-256, January.
    6. Cameron, Alistair & Oak, Mandar & Shan, Yaping, 2021. "Peer monitoring and Islamic microfinance," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 184(C), pages 337-358.
    7. Sebastian Krügel & Matthias Uhl, 2023. "Internal whistleblowing systems without proper sanctions may backfire," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 93(8), pages 1355-1383, October.
    8. Jeffrey V. Butler & Danila Serra & Giancarlo Spagnolo, 2017. "Motivating Whistleblowers," CEIS Research Paper 419, Tor Vergata University, CEIS, revised 12 Dec 2017.
    9. Liu, Jia-Cai & Sheu, Jiuh-Biing & Li, Deng-Feng & Dai, Yong-Wu, 2021. "Collaborative profit allocation schemes for logistics enterprise coalitions with incomplete information," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    10. Mahaut Fanchini & Meghan Van Portfliet, 2025. "Whistleblowing as a Recursive Sequence of Épreuves: A Boltanskian Theorization of Speaking Up," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 202(4), pages 647-659, December.
    11. Xiaoxi Zhu & Changhui Yang & Kai Liu & Rui Zhang & Qingquan Jiang, 2022. "Cooperation and decision making in a two-sided market motivated by the externality of a third-party social media platform," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 316(1), pages 117-142, September.
    12. Ockenfels, Axel & Sliwka, Dirk & Werner, Peter, 2024. "Multi-Rater Performance Evaluations and Incentives," IZA Discussion Papers 16812, IZA Network @ LISER.
    13. Blanchard, Pablo & Burdin, Gabriel & Dean, Andrés, 2025. "Property rights, sick pay and effort supply," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
    14. Gilberto Tadeu Lima & Jaylson Jair da Silveira, 2018. "Macrodynamic Implications of Employee Profit Sharing as Effort Elicitation Device," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2018_02, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).

Articles

  1. Prottoy A. Akbar & Sijie Li Hickly & Allison Shertzer & Randall P. Walsh, 2025. "Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 107(1), pages 42-54, January.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Prottoy Akbar & Victor Couture & Gilles Duranton & Adam Storeygard, 2023. "Mobility and Congestion in Urban India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 113(4), pages 1083-1111, April.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Jeffrey Carpenter & Andrea Robbett & Prottoy A. Akbar, 2018. "Profit Sharing and Peer Reporting," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 64(9), pages 4261-4276, September.
    See citations under working paper version above.Sorry, no citations of articles recorded.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 8 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (6) 2017-09-10 2018-10-29 2018-11-19 2018-11-26 2022-11-07 2023-10-09. Author is listed
  2. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (5) 2017-09-10 2018-10-29 2018-11-19 2018-11-26 2023-10-09. Author is listed
  3. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (2) 2017-09-10 2022-11-07
  4. NEP-EFF: Efficiency and Productivity (1) 2022-11-07
  5. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (1) 2019-05-13
  6. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2016-06-04
  7. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2016-06-04
  8. NEP-SBM: Small Business Management (1) 2022-11-07

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