Title

Street Pavement: Results from an Infrastructure Experiment in Mexico

Author(s)

Marco Gonzalez-Navarro Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (UC Berkeley)

Climent Quintana-Domeque Climent Quintana-Domeque (Universitat d'Alacant)

Abstract

Urban peripheries in many developing countries lack basic local public goods like street pavement, water, sewerage and electricity. We design an experiment of street pavement provision in a Mexican urban area and estimate impacts on a set of indicators obtained from a household survey. Our ndings show that houses in streets that were paved increased substantially in value, by 15% according to professional appraisals, and by 24% according to homeowners. Households living in streets that were paved obtained more credit, had higher per capita expenditures, increased motor vehicle ownership and were more likely to have made home improvements.

Creation Date

2010-07

Section URL ID

IRS

Paper Number

556

URL

https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01zs25x8454/1/556.pdf

File Function

Jel

C010, D120, H000, H540, R210

Keyword(s)

public infrastructure improvements, Mexico, urban infrastructure, housing value, house prices

Suppress

false

Series

1