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Jeanne Sorin

Assistant Professor
UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy

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Jeanne Sorin is a third year PhD student in Economics at the University of Chicago and a DRW PhD Fellow at EPIC.

Her research interests are at the intersection of environmental, development, history and urban/spatial economics.

Projects

The impacts of road improvements in Kampala on traffic congestion, air pollution, and urban equilibrium

Jeanne Sorin, Michael Greenstone 31 Oct 2024

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Road improvements in Kampala, Uganda can be challenging to implement due to cost of land with the image showing a road used by motorists and pedestrians flanked by amenities which could benefit from road improvements.

Land costs and benefits of road improvements: Evidence from urban Uganda

Thumbnail image of Sorin Working Paper March 2025

Public roads on private lands: Land costs and optimal road improvements in urban Uganda

Land costs and citywide benefits of road improvements in a sub-Saharan African city: Evidence from Kampala

Land costs and citywide benefits of road improvements in a sub-Saharan African city: Evidence from Kampala

Oliveira-Cunha and Sorin Policy note November 2024 cover

Urbanisation, transport and the environment: Some considerations for a more productive Kampala

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Jeanne Sorin

Bassi et al Policy brief December 2022

Exposure to air pollution for small firms in African cities

Vittorio Bassi, Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio, Jeanne Sorin

Photo credit: weesam2010, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Searching for customers, finding pollution

Vittorio Bassi, Matthew Kahn, Nancy Lozano Gracia, Tommaso Porzio, Jeanne Sorin

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