GIS for Credible Identification Strategies in Economics Research

Masayuki Kudamatsu

CESifo Economic Studies, 2018, vol. 64, issue 2, 327-338

Abstract: This article surveys the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for the credible identification of causal impacts in recent economics research. It describes how each geo-processing tool in GIS allows economists to use data on geography and weather as sources of exogenous variation for estimating the impact of various ‘treatments’. The diverse range of treatments discussed in this survey includes disease, school competition, land suitability for agriculture, infrastructure, the elasticity of housing supply, mass media, learning from friends, slave trade, the appropriability of crop harvests, and terrain ruggedness.

Keywords: econometric and statistical methods; economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C88 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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