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CEP discussion paper
Green gains from connectivity: highway expansion and forest quality

Roads are often linked to deforestation in frontier settings, but their effects in managed forests are less well understood. We investigate the intensive-margin response of forest outcomes to roads using China?s 2000?201...Read more...

Xingjian Ding, Yumin Hu, Shilei Liu, Cong Peng, Jintao Xu, Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu and Qinghua Zhang

17 March 2026

CentrePiece article
Women in the workplace: 50 years of change

Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizeable gender gaps remain in most indicators of economic achievement. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo revie...Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

21 February 2023

CEP discussion paper
Families, labor markets and policy

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and earnings, marriage delay and the accompanying decline in fertility, and the large remaining gaps in labo...Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

24 November 2022

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Cohesion Policy Incentives for Collaborative Industrial Research. The Evaluation of a Smart Specialisation Forerunner Programme

This paper evaluates a program of subsidies for Collaborative Industrial Research (co-) funded by the EU Cohesion Policy in Italy mobilizing over 1 billion euros. This program anticipated in the 2007-2013 funding cycle s...Read more...

Riccardo Crescenzi, Mara Giua and Guido de Blasio

22 February 2018

CEP discussion paper
Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the short workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male emp...Read more...

Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin and Barbara Petrongolo

17 November 2011

CEP discussion paper
From Sectoral To Functional Urban Specialisation

We document and then develop a model explaining and relating changes in firms' organisation and in urban structure. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants ...Read more...

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

September 2001

CEP discussion paper
Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation and the Life-Cycle of Products

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which d...Read more...

Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga

February 2000