The Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development
研究秘鲁2005-2015年下水道扩建项目因施工安全隐患导致婴儿和五岁以下儿童死亡率上升的意外后果，对政策制定者和基础设施规划者有警示意义。
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 quasirandom 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.