Browsing 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica by Subject "Transporte"
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Bimodal Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development: Evidence from Argentina, 1960 - 1991
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-13)We estimate the impact of railroad and road infrastructure on local economic development through the study of massive transport infrastructure changes in Argentina. Following a World Bank study, 10,000 kilometers of railroads ... -
Contracting the Road to Development: Early Impacts of a Rural Roads Program
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)We studied here the early impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program (RRP) that is characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads with local supervision by ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Buenos Aires’s Metrobus on Within-City Spatial Sorting
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)This paper explores the relationship between urban public transportation innovation and crime. In 2004, the city of Medellin in Colombia developed an innovative public transportation system based on cable cars (Metrocable) ... -
Servicios locales, infraestructura y transporte: dimensión, escala, redes e instituciones de gobernanza
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Este trabajo pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las pautas de producción y de gobernanza de los servicios públicos locales. La cuestión central es que algunos de estos servicios están caracterizados por economías de ... -
Transit Infrastructure and Couples’ Commuting Choices in General Equilibrium
(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 ... -
Transportation infrastructure and productivity: evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)This paper analyses the role of transport infrastructure in determining plant level TFP. We calculate TFP from the annual manufacturing surveys using accounting and econometric procedures. We find that differential access ... -
Waits and Delays in Road Freight Transport
(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 ...
