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
CV
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)