Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos
With Dan Björkegren, Geetika Nagpal, and Nick Tsivanidis.
Economist · Development Economics · World Bank Group
Alice Duhaut
Research on urban economics, transport and trade, and big data for development policy.
Research interests
01
Urban economics
Housing, mobility, jobs, informal settlements, and city-level policy evaluation.
02Transport and trade
Transport corridors, public and private transit, trade facilitation, customs, and supply chains.
03Big data
Satellite imagery, mobility data, customs records, and AI tools for measurement and evaluation.
Urban economics
Published work, working papers, and ongoing projects on cities, housing, mobility, and jobs.
Optimal Transport Network
With Dan Björkegren, Geetika Nagpal, Nicola Rosaia, and Nick Tsivanidis.
Long-Term Effects of Informal Settlement Upgrading: Evidence from Kenya
With Sixuan Li, Geetika Nagpal, and Cong Peng.
Jobs in Urban and Rural Areas
With Sam Asher, Charles Gottlieb, Mathilde Lebrand, and Paul Novosad.
Housing Finance Investments: What Works?
With Arlen Guarin and Geetika Nagpal.
Transport and trade
Research on transport infrastructure, corridors, trade facilitation, customs, and market integration.
The Impact of Ethiopia’s Road Investment Program on Economic Development and Land Use
With Simon Alder, Kevin Croke, Rob Marty, and Ariana Vaisey. Journal of Economic Geography, 2026.
Government Analytics Using Customs Data
Chapter in The Government Analytics Handbook, edited by Daniel Rogger and Christian Schuster. World Bank, 2024.
Does Better Information Curb Customs Fraud?
With C. Chalendard, A. Fernandes, A. Mattoo, G. Raballand, and B. Rijkers. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9254, 2020.
Trade Facilitation Without Trade Cost Reduction: Evidence from a Border Reform in Malawi
Research on border reform, clearance time, customs processes, revenue collection, and trade costs.
The Impact of Transport Corridors on Economic Activity in Pakistan
With Cong Peng and Marta Santamaria.
Big data for development policy
Research using mobility data, satellite imagery, geospatial methods, customs data, and AI-based measurement.
Representation in Mobility Data in Emerging Cities
With Daniel Björkegren, Oluchi Mbonu, Geetika Nagpal, and Nick Tsivanidis. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2026.
Measuring Poverty from the Sky: Satellite Imagery for Improved Targeting of Social Programs
With Rob Marty. Nature Scientific Reports, 2024.
AI Models to Measure Informal Settlements
With Sixuan Li, Geetika Nagpal, and Cong Peng.
Impact of Urban and National Transport Systems
Forthcoming in Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice, edited by Ben Yishay, Ariel, Kunwar Singh, and Claire Zanuso.
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