The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill: Evidence from the Interstate Highway System

By Guy Michaels. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006

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Shaky Roads and Trembling Exports: Assessing the Trade Effects of Domestic Infrastructure Using a Natural Experiment (2012, methodology): “Baum-Snow (2007) and Michaels (2008) use, among others, plans for the US Interstate Highway System –that were designed to strengthen national defense and improve connectivity among major metropolitan areas and with Canada and Mexico- as instruments for the actual highways to examine their effects…”
The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, background): “13In the spirit of Michaels (2008) and Greenstone et al. (2010). that both orders wanted to convert souls to Christianity, but Jesuits emphasized education and technical training in their conversion.”
From periphery to core: measuring agglomeration effects using high-speed rail (2018, background): “There is also evidence of asymmetric impacts on labor markets, in particular, of a relative increase in demand for skilled workers in skill-abundant regions (Michaels, 2008).”
Mostly pointless spatial econometrics (2012, background): “For example, Michaels (2008) notes that the U.S. highway system was planned on a regular East-West, North-South grid connecting major cities, 12 Note, however, that while the spatial structure of the data does not help, neither does it especially hinder the search for a suitable instrument.”
Agglomeration Effects in Colombia (2016, neutral): “Although some work has been devoted to the effects of transportation on rural wages (Michaels, 2008; Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2013), very little attention has been devoted to urban wages.”
How Does Transportation Shape Intrametropolitan Growth? An Answer from the Regional Express Rail (2017, positive): “…on the suburbanization process, both in the U.S. (Baum-Snow, 2007b) and in Europe (Garcia-López et al., 2015a,b), while other studies, conducted at the county level, consider alternative outcomes, such as workers’ earnings (Michaels, 2008) or employment growth (Jiwattanakulpaisarn et al., 2009).”
Airports and urban sectoral employment (2014, methodology): “In particular, the identification strategy employed here is informed by recent work on the effects of roads by Baum-Snow (2007), Michaels (2008), Duranton and Turner (2011; 2012), and Duranton, Morrow, and Turner (forthcoming), each of which uses the federal highway plan from 1944 or 1947 to…”
Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, background): “These studies examine the impact of transport infrastructure on: productivity (see Fernald, 1999); relative demand for skilled workers (see Michaels, 2008); suburbanization (see Baum-Snow, 2007); urban growth (see Duranton and Turner, 2012); counties' earnings and market access (see Chandra and…”
Transport Policies and Development (2015, neutral): “This is the approach adopted by authors who focus on rural places along roads that connect cities, excluding those endogenous nodes (Chandra and Thompson, 2000; Michaels, 2008).”