is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to … India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in …

competitive elections to India's state legislative assemblies, exploiting close elections between men and women to isolate the …

In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …

relationship between investment, urbanization, and economic growth. In one mechanism, urbanization generates demand for … productivity. Another mechanism emphasized in this paper is that infrastructure investment can promote urbanization through … of goods and production factors (labor and capital) is a fundamental force that drives urbanization, but the market may …