Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324401 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 24/18
Publisher: 
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure. Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, when the government embarked on a nationwide initiative to expand sewerage systems, I leverage quasi-random variation in initiation of the implementation phase. By combining several sources of administrative data, I find that infrastructure development increased infant and under-5 mortality. These effects are driven by health and safety hazards associated with construction work, leading to increased deaths from accidents and waterborne diseases. The severity of these effects is more pronounced in areas where construction activity was more intense.
Subjects: 
state capacity
public expenditure
public goods
implementation
infrastructure
mortality
JEL: 
H54
I15
J18
N36
O18
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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