Cong Peng

Roads to Development? Urbanization Without Growth in Zambia

with Yao Wang

CEP working paper; presented at ASSA, UEA, COMPIE, SUME

Revise and Resubmit: Journal of Urban Economics

Does E-commerce Reduce Traffic Congestion? Evidence from Alibaba Single Day Shopping Event

CEP working paper; presented at UEA, ARUUEA International Conference, ITEA, SMU Conference;

Green Gains from Connectivity: Highway Expansion and Forest Quality

with Xingjian Ding, Yumin Hu, Shilei Liu, Jintao Xu, Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu, Qinghua Zhang

CEP working paper; presented at SMUE

Covered to Compete: How Export Credit Insurance Shapes Firm Trade

with Yu Ji, Wei Tian, Yiqun Zhuang

CEP working paper; presented at CEPR, SMUE Shenzhen, CCER SI

Revise and Resubmit: Journal of International Economics

The Urban Hierarchy in Africa: Competition and Complementarity

with Vernon Henderson, Yang Song and Tony Venables

Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series, University of Oxford; presented at SMUE

Revise and Resubmit: Journal of Development Economics

Previously circulated as Growth in the African Urban Hierarchy

Online Shopping Reduces Urban Air Pollution Exposure by Redistributing Traffic Across Space and Time

with Lan An, Zhenghong Wang, Ruoming Lyu, Long Wang, Yang Yang, Yi Li, Zhenning Dong, Zhou Huang, Ke Rong

presented at CCER SI

Previously circulated as From Digital Carts to Cleaner Air: The Role of E-commerce in Reducing Urban Air Pollution

Tipping Forest Carbon Credits Toward Additionality

with Zilin Chen, Fengze Lin, Xianling Long

Spatial Pricing Can Halve Utilization Inequality Across Urban EV Charging Stations

with Kaixiang Liu, Jianwei Xing, Zhaosheng Zhang

Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities

Journal of Economic Geography, 2021

with J. Vernon Henderson and Neeraj G. Baruah

Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Canals and Canal Restoration Using House Prices

Land Economics, 97(4), 858–874, 2021

with Steve Gibbons and Cheng Keat Tang

A Flexible Framework for Built-Up Height Mapping Using ICESat-2 Photons and Multisource Satellite Observations

Remote Sensing of Environment, 318, 114572, 2025

Xiayu Tang, Guojiang Yu, Xuecao Li, Hannes Taubenböck, Guohua Hu, Yuyu Zhou, Cong Peng, Donglie Liu, Jianxi Huang, Xiaoping Liu, Peng Gong

Demographic and Health Outcomes by Degree of Urbanisation: Perspectives from a New Classification of Urban Areas

European Commission Report, 2020

with J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and Vivian Liu

Evaluating the outcomes of trade liberalization in Uzbekistan: impacts and paths forward

with Abdurashid Bozorov and Zhuoran Shang

China Economic Journal, 19(1), 104–116, 2026

China's Journey to the West: Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Evaluate Transportation Improvement in Central Asia

with Gordon Hanson

presented at Infra4Dev 2022

Roads, Domestic Trade, and Production Networks: Evidence from Pakistan's CPEC Expansion

with Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Zhuoran Shang and Mazhar Waseem

presented at SMU Trade Conference

Long-Term Effects of Settlement Upgrading: Evidence from Kenya

with Alice Duhaut, Sixuan Li and Geetika Nagpal

Trade, Trans-national Infrastructure Investments and Economic Development: Evidence from the New Silk Road

Co-PI, Swiss National Science Foundation (502,434 CHF) and International Growth Center (64,101 pounds), 2024-present

Infrastructure, Industrial Policy and Economic Development

PI, International Growth Center (25,000 pounds), 2024-present

The Socioeconomic Impact of Road Development in Zambia: Phase Two

PI, International Growth Center (12,000 pounds), 2020-2021

The Socioeconomic Impact of Road Development in Zambia

PI, International Growth Center (19,994 pounds), 2019-2020

Graduate Courses

Urban Economics in Developing Countries (Fall 2023 - present)
International Economic Development (Spring 2024 - present)
Public Policy and Microeconomics (Fall 2022)

Undergraduate Courses

Urban Economics (Spring 2024 - present)
International Trade (Spring 2023)