Roads and Urban Growth

Ferdinand Rauch and Paul Brandily

No 859, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: P. Brandily, F. Rauch Roads are essential to facilitate interactions in cities. A sub-optimal road layout in cities and towns may inhibit interactions and constrain urban population growth. Using data from over 1800 cities and towns from Sub-Saharan Africa, and an instrument based on the history of foundation ages of cities in Africa, we study the relationship between the road layout of a city and its population growth. We show that cities characterised by low road density in the city centre experience less population growth in recent decades.

Keywords: Road layout; Urban planning; Urbanization; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10-11
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