• Evaluating the Impact of Buenos Aires’s Metrobus on Within-City Spatial Sorting 

      Warnes, Pablo Ernesto (CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-14)
      How do improvements in the urban transport infrastructure affect the spatial sorting of residents with different levels of in-come and education within a city? What are the welfare effects of improving urban transit once ...
    • How infrastructure shapes comparative advantage 

      Quintana, Luis Baldomero (CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-30)
      This paper provides evidence that domestic trade costs are a source of comparative advantage. First, I build an international trade and internal geography model with transportation features and input-output linkages. Then, ...
    • Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá 

      Akbar, Prottoy; Duranton, Gilles (CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04)
      We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google ...
    • Roads illuminate development: Using nightlight luminosity to assess the impact of transport infrastructure 

      Bolivar, Osmar (CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-14)
      The research aims to evaluate the impact of paved major roads on economic growth at the municipal level in Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. Due to the absence of municipal information, pub-licly available satellite data are ...
    • Transit Infrastructure and Couples’ Commuting Choices in General Equilibrium 

      Velásquez, Daniel (CAF; Caracas, 2022-07-22)
      What is the impact of improving the transit infrastructure on the gender earnings gap? How does family structure matter to un‐derstand the impact of new transit infrastructure? Recent mod‐els on spatial economics hinge on ...
    • Waits and Delays in Road Freight Transport 

      Hernández, Carlos Eduardo (CAF; Caracas, 2021-05-06)
      This paper studies waits and delays in the trucking industry of a developing country: Colombia. We follow 186,000 longhaul trips over 926 routes between 2015 and 2019, using GPS devices located in trucks. We find that ...