Conference Agenda

Session
04-05: Assessing impact of Infrastructure investments
Time:
Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019:
3:45pm - 5:15pm

Session Chair: Innocent Matshe, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya
 Location: MC 5-100

Presentations
ID: 606 / 04-05: 1
Individual Papers
Topics: Economic research and impact evaluation
Keywords: difference-in-differences, rail transit, Philippines

How do mass transit investments affect land values? evidence from MRT-3

Abdul Abiad, Ann Jillian Adona, Kathleen Farrin

Asian Development Bank, Philippines


ID: 856 / 04-05: 2
Individual Papers
Topics: Commons and natural resource management
Keywords: deforestation, roads

Ecological footprint of transportation infrastructure

Teevrat Garg1, Sam Asher2, Paul Novosad3

1University of California, San Diego, United States of America; 2World Bank; 3Dartmouth College


ID: 869 / 04-05: 3
Individual Papers
Topics: Land markets and structural transformation
Keywords: Urban Growth, Rural Economic Development, Structural Transformation, Remote Sensing Data

How large are the contributions of cities to the development of rural communities?

Juan Daniel Soto Diaz1,2, Milena Vargas4,2, Julio Berdegue3

1London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; 2Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP); 3Food and Agricutural Organization of the United Nations (FAO); 4The National Statistics Institute of Chile (INE)


ID: 1250 / 04-05: 5
Individual Papers
Topics: Land policy and political economy
Keywords: .

From municipal investments to functional subregions: new territorial planning units in Colombia

Natalie Gomez Arteaga

DNP, Colombia