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dc.titleBright Investments: Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti
dc.contributor.authorMitnik, Oscar A.
dc.contributor.authorSanchez, Raul
dc.contributor.authorYáñez-Pagans, Patricia
dc.contributor.orgunitOffice of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
dc.coverageHaiti
dc.date.available2018-12-12T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2018-12-12T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, proxied by satellite luminosity data. Our identification strategy exploits the differential timing of rehabilitation projects across various road segments of the primary road network. We combine multiple sources of non-traditional data and carefully address concerns related to unobserved heterogeneity. The results obtained across multiple specifications consistently indicate that receiving a road rehabilitation project leads to an increase in luminosity values between 7 percent and 15 percent at the communal section level. Taking into account the national level elasticity between luminosity values and GDP, we approximate that these interventions translate in GDP increases of around 0.6 percent and 1.2 percent in communal sections that were benefited by a transport project. Findings also uncover some temporal and spatial variation, showing that effects take some time to appear and that it is not the richest or the poorest communities that are gaining from these investments but those in the middle of the income distribution.
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001474
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/2018DEC12_Bright_investments.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.relation.seriesImpact Evaluations
dc.subjectInfrastructure Work
dc.subjectRoad Network
dc.subjectRoad Infrastructure
dc.subjectBig Data
dc.subjectGross Domestic Product
dc.subjectNatural Disaster
dc.subjectImpact Evaluation
dc.subjectDifference-in-Difference Method
dc.subjectTransport Infrastructure
dc.subject.jelcodeO10 - Economic Development: General
dc.subject.jelcodeR40 - Transportation Economics: General
dc.subject.jelcodeO47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth • Aggregate Productivity • Cross-Country Output Convergence
dc.subject.jelcodeD04 - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
dc.typeWorking Papers
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