The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic
opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease and congestion, because proximity …

India's rising population and vehicular ownership have led to problems such as traffic
congestion, pollution, and road accidents. The transportation sector is a crucial player in the …

How would the shape of our cities change if there were a permanent increase in working
from home? We study this question using a quantitative model of the Los Angeles …

Density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces
typical travel distances, encourages energy efficient construction and transport, and allows …

A vigorous debate has emerged in recent years over how to understand cities of the Global
South. A pivotal issue in this debate is whether urbanisation processes in the South are so …

This paper estimates the effects of improving public transit infrastructure on city structure and
welfare. It develops a sufficient statistics approach common to a class of quantitative urban …

The spatial layout of cities is an important feature of urban form, highlighted by urban
planners but overlooked by economists. This paper investigates the causal economic …

Developing country megacities suffer from severe road traffic congestion, yet the level of
congestion is not a direct measure of equilibrium inefficiency. I study the peak‐hour traffic …

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic
development schemes, are “place-based.” Such policies are generally intended to stimulate …

How large are the economic gains to improving public transit systems within cities and how
are they distributed between low-and high-skilled workers? With 2.5 billion people predicted …