Urban Growth and Transportation

Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner

No 6633, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We estimate the effects of major roads and public transit on the growth of major cities in the US between 1980 and 2000. We find that a 10% increase in a city?s stock of roads causes about a 2% increase in its population and employment and a small decrease in its share of poor households over this 20 year period. We also find that a 10% increase in a city?s stock of large buses causes about a 0.8% population increase and a small increase in the share of poor households over this period. To estimate these effects we rely on an instrumental variables estimation which uses a 1947 plan of the interstate highway system and an 1898 map of railroads as instruments for 1980 roads.

Keywords: Urban growth; Transportation; Public transport; Instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L91 N70 R11 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01
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