Nick Tsivanidis

My research studies the role of cities in economic development.

Assistant Professor
Haas School of Business
University of California at Berkeley
Cities Research Co-Director, International Growth Centre

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ntsivanidisnospamn00b@berkeley.edu

Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio
Conditionally Accepted (data), American Economic Review
[ Paper | Online Appendix | Combined Paper + Appendix | Blog Post ]

Published and Accepted Papers

Contract Labor and Firm Growth in India (with Marianne Bertrand and Chang-Tai Hsieh)
Forthcoming, Econometrica
[ Paper ]

Cities in the Developing World (with Gharad Bryan and Ed Glaeser)
Annual Review of Economics, 2020 12:1, 273-297
[ Paper | NBER Working Paper ]

Working Papers

Spatial Spillovers from High-Rise Developments: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills (with Michael Gechter)
Revise and Resubmit, Econometrica
[ Paper | Online Appendix | Supplementary Material ]

Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos (with Dan Björkegren, Alice Duhaut and Geetika Nagpal)
[ Paper ]

Works in Progress

Henry George in Action: Land Value Capture in São Paulo (with Gharad Bryan, Flavia Leite and Caterina Soto-Vieira)

Efficiency of Informal Transit Networks (with Dan Björkegren, Alice Duhaut and Geetika Nagpal)

Climate Security and Informal Settlements: Evidence from Sierra Leone (with Gharad Bryan, Abou Bakarr Kamara and Emiliano Rinaldi)