How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these
benefits? This paper uses archival data from colonial India to investigate the impact of …

This paper is about a package of infrastructure investment, the China-Pakistan Economic
Corridor (CPEC). This paper uses a range of theoretical perspectives (buttressed by …

The literature on commodity market integration has boomed in the last 15 years, and a sort
of consensus is slowly emerging, at least with regard to trends in the last two centuries. This …

This chapter outlines the main advances in the literature on market integration in the last 5–
10 years. After a short review of the definition of market integration and of the main statistical …

This chapter reviews the organization of railways, describes the major trends in
performance, assesses the effect of regulation and ownership on railway performance, and …

A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world In The Taste
of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's …

Abstract In Central India, the Narmada River separates two regions that have been ruled by
different types of government only during the colonial period, and for reasons independent …

Using a new dataset on city populations in colonial India, we show that the railroad network
increased city size in the period 1881 to 1931. Our baseline estimation approach includes …

" This book is a study of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that ranges vastly
beyond the Pakistan-centric literature that is commonly used in related studies. It delves into …

Railways were integral to the development of the Indian economy before World War I. This
article presents new estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) for railways from 1874 to …