Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos

We thank many colleagues and seminar participants for helpful comments and discussions, and many research assistants for excellent work. This work would not have been possible without the tireless work of field managers Nura Sambo Umar and Segun Adebamiji. This paper is a product of the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/the World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, the governments they represent, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. This work was supported by the World Bank’s Research Support Budget, the World Bank Knowledge for Change Programme, the European Union’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) and the UK International Development from the UK government under the World Bank’s Umbrella Facility for Impact Evaluation, the Clausen Center at UC Berkeley, IGC, J-PAL King Climate Action Initiative, the Brown University Seed Fund, the Weiss Fund, and STEG. The experimental portion of this project was preregistered in the AEA RCT registry (AEARCTR-0010283).

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