Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems. A Replication Study of Rogowski et al. (American Journal of Political Science, 2022)

Florian Neubauer, Julian Rose and Jörg Ankel-Peters

Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE), 2025, vol. 4, No 2025-5, 10 pages

Abstract: Rogowski et al. (2022) use secondary data to study the impact of historic postal infrastructure on economic development, both cross-country and within the US. Their results suggest a large positive effect of post offices on economic development that is robust across various sensitivity checks. We successfully computationally reproduce all results. In a robustness assessment, we find the results to be robust to simple changes in the analysis but observe some sensitivity to accounting for spatial trends in the long-term cross-country analysis. Despite this, we find the results to be overall robust given the numerous analyses and robustness checks in the original paper.

Keywords: Reproduction; Infrastructure; Postal Services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A1 L87 O18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.18718/81781.44

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