Reconstruction and conflict: Losing hearts and minds A study finds that military-led projects in the Afghan health sector alleviate violence, whereas those in the education sector actually provoke conflict Infrastructure Travers Barclay Child Published 15.01.18
Land Rights and Urban Poverty Sebastian Galiani on the impact Argentina’s land title policy had on credit access, housing quality, family welfare and economic ideology. Infrastructure Sebastian Galiani Published 12.01.18
Unfinished development projects in Ghana: Mechanising collective choice Project non-completion, commonly attributed to corruption or clientelism, is in fact often caused by an inability to prioritise public expenditure Infrastructure Martin J. Williams Published 10.11.17
Jakarta’s maligned congestion-easing policy actually worked When unpopular anti-congestion policies were abandoned in Indonesia's capital, we discovered flawed policy had been better than no policy Infrastructure Rema Hanna Vestal McIntyre Published 31.10.17
Property rights and poverty reduction: Effects of land titling on Argentina’s urban poor Reducing the cost of land titles and simplifying the systems can improve land security and livelihoods of the poor Infrastructure Sebastian Galiani Published 05.09.17
Home ownership as status competition The high ratio of men to women in the marriage market helps explain why homeownership in China has increased despite skyrocketing house prices Infrastructure Xiaobo Zhang Published 13.06.17
Floods and the location of economic activity Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating Infrastructure Adriana Kocornik-Mina Thomas McDermott Guy Michaels Ferdinand Rauch Published 21.01.16
The bubble dynamics of China’s housing boom Unless the government curtains new construction in lower tier cities, it is hard to see how the housing boom will sustain. Infrastructure Edward Glaeser Published 21.06.17
Urbanisation with and without industrialisation Resource-exporting countries urbanise without acquiring the industrial sectors typically associated with development Infrastructure Dietrich Vollrath Rémi Jedwab Douglas Gollin Published 09.03.16
