A5048475432- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Urban Transport Systems Analysis
- Global trade and economics
- International Development and Aid
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Economic theories and models
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Harvard University Press
2021-2024
National Bureau of Economic Research
2019-2023
Harvard University
2023
IIT@MIT
2023
International Paper (United States)
2023
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
2023
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
2019
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official statistics in environments with large informal sectors subsistence agriculture. We assemble from over 30,000 respondents 16 original household surveys nine countries Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines),...
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend individual preferences for waiting times, travel transfers. We study these by examining the world's largest bus rapid transit system, Jakarta, Indonesia, leveraging a large network expansion 2016-2020. Using detailed ridership data aggregate flows from smartphone data, we analyze...
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend individual preferences for waiting times, travel transfers. We study these by examining the world's largest bus rapid transit system, Jakarta, Indonesia, leveraging a large network expansion 2016-2020. Using detailed ridership data aggregate flows from smartphone data, we analyze...