Replication data for: The Neighborhood Impacts of Local Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Urban Mexico

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Craig McIntosh; Tito Alegría; Gerardo Ordóñez; René Zenteno

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Project Citation:

McIntosh, Craig, Alegría, Tito, Ordóñez, Gerardo, and Zenteno, René. Replication data for: The Neighborhood Impacts of Local Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from Urban Mexico. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2018. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113705V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper reports on the results of a large infrastructure investment experiment in which $68 million in spending was randomly allocated across a set of low-income urban neighborhoods in Mexico. We show that the program resulted in substantial improvements in access to infrastructure and increases in private investment in housing. While a pre-committed index of social capital did not improve, we find an apparent decrease in the incidence of personal assault and teen misbehavior in neighborhoods where investments were made. The program increased the aggregate real estate value in program neighborhoods by two dollars for every dollar invested.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: randomized experiments; Urban Infrastructure

JEL Classification:
      H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
      R31 Housing Supply and Markets
      R53 Public Facility Location Analysis; Public Investment and Capital Stock
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

Geographic Coverage: Mexico

Data Type(s): census/enumeration data; geographic information system (GIS) data; experimental data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: neighborhoods, houses,

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