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The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested: Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries

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By Prottoy A. Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard
| National Bureau of Economic Research
This work is supported by the World Bank, the Transportation Economics in the 21st Century Initiative of the NBER and U.S. Department of Transportation, the Zell Lurie Center for Real Estate at the Wharton School, and the Center for Innovative Data in Economic Research at UBC.
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How segregated housing eroded the wealth of black families

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By Prottoy A. Akbar, Sijie Li, Allison Shertzer, Randall P. Walsh
| VoxEU.org
Segregated housing markets and the erosion of black wealth: New evidence from pre-war cities Prottoy A. Akbar, Sijie Li, Allison Shertzer, Randall Walsh 31 August 2019 The Great Migration is associated with increased residential segregation in northern cities, inflating rents and eroding housing values. This column uses new data at the block level to estimate the scale of price changes.
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Mobility and congestion in urban India

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By Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard, Prottoy A. Akbar, Victor Couture
| VoxEU.org
Prottoy A. Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton, Adam Storeygard 29 June 2019 Urban transportation in developing countries is prioritised for massive investments, yet little is known about the determinants of urban mobility in these countries. This column applies a methodology for measuring the performance of overall motor vehicle transportation in a city to the 154 largest cities in India.
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