 China's dazzling transport-infrastructure growth: Measurement and effectsPeter Egger, Gabriel Loumeau and Nicole Loumeau Journal of International Economics, 2023, vol. 142, issue C Abstract: We document an unprecedented change in the size and the quality of China's transport-infrastructure network between 2000 and 2013 based on hand-collected and digitized data on roads and railways. The changes are summarized and portrayed as shortest-possible transport times of people and goods between 330 prefectures of mainland China. A quantitative model of China's prefectures and a Rest of the World, featuring both goods trade and migration, suggests that the transport-infrastructure changes induced regional convergence of lagging-behind prefectures in terms of population density and, to a lesser extent, of real per-capita income. Not only changes in highway and high-speed-railway networks but also ones in lower-level road and railway networks are quantitatively important. Keywords: Transport infrastructure; Regional economics; General-equilibrium models; Structural estimation; Migration; Transportation problem (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:inecon:v:142:y:2023:i:c:s002219962300020x DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2023.103734 Access Statistics for this article Journal of International Economics is currently edited by Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier and RodrÃguez-Clare, Andrés More articles in Journal of International Economics from Elsevier |
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