On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Nancy Qian

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Abstract: This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical cities.[BREAD Working Paper No. 325]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/325.pdf].

Keywords: Infrastructure; Growth; Inequality; Firms; development; historical cities; China; economic benefits; per capita; GDP growth; Japan; railroads; river networks; economic model; transportation networks; agricultural hinterland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-03
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