Cong Peng

Cong Peng

Assistant Professor
National School of Development, Peking University
Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Performance
Email: congpeng@nsd.pku.edu.cn
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Working Papers

Roads to Development? Urbanization Without Growth in Zambia

with Yao Wang and Wenfan Chen
presented at ASSA, UEA, COMPIE, SUME

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

presented at UEA, ARUUEA International Conference, ITEA, SMU Conference
presented at Infra4Dev 2022

Growth in the African Urban Hierarchy

with Vernon Henderson and Tony Venables

Publications

Colonial Legacies: Shaping African Cities

Journal of Economic Geography, 2021
with J. Vernon Henderson and Neeraj G. Baruah

Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Canals Using House Prices

Land Economics, 2022
with Steve Gibbons and Cheng Keat Tang

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

European Commission Report, 2021
with J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard and Vivian Liu

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

Remote Sensing of Environment, 2024
Xiayu Tang, Guojiang Yu, Xuecao Li, Hannes Taubenböck, Guohua Hu, Yuyu Zhou, Cong Peng, Donglie Liu, Jianxi Huang, Xiaoping Liu, Peng Gong

Selected Work-in-Progress

Highway Improvement and Intercity Trade in Pakistan

with Dzhamilya Nigmatulina and Mazhar Waseem

Boosting Exports or Picking Winners? The Role of Export Credit Insurance in China

with Yu Ji, Wei Tian, Yiqun Zhuang

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

with Lan An, Ruoming Lyu, Zhenghong Wang, Zhou Huang, Ke Rong

Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Impact on Food Security and Civil Unrest in Sub-Saharan Africa

with Enqi Zhang

Research Grants

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

Teaching

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)