Railroads and American Economic Growth: a

By David J. Donaldson, Richard A. Hornbeck. 2013

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• Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity (2014, unknown): “In a related paper, Donaldson and Hornbeck (2013), consider a sample of about 2200 counties in the continental U.S. between 1870 and 1890, a period of rapid rail expansion. Donaldson and Hornbeck (2013) also perform a variant of the intercity regression, this time with county fixed effects, state-ye”
• Common transport infrastructure: A quantitative model and estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative (2019, methodology): “Second, our work relates to the recent literature on the economic effects of transport infrastructure (Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016; Allen and Arkolakis, 2017; Fajgelbaum and Schaal, 2017; Donaldson, 2018; Santamaria, 2018).”
• The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa (2016, unknown): “5 Other papers focus on the following dimensions: land values (Bogart, 2009; Donaldson & Hornbeck, 2013), trade (Donaldson, 2013; Duranton, Morrow, & Turner, 2014), labor (Michaels, 2008; Duranton & Turner, 2012; Ghani, Goswami & Kerr, 2012), or income (Banerjee, Duflo, & Qian, 2012; Storeygard,…”
• Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (2017, unknown): “7Some examples include Jacoby (2000); Jacoby and Minten (2009); Gibson and Olivia (2010); Mu and van de Walle (2011); Casaburi et al. (2013); Donaldson and Hornbeck (2016); Donaldson (2018).”
• Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth? (2018, unknown): “There is a large literature which takes a different approach to examining the effects of national transport systems (e.g. Donaldson, 2015; Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016; Alder, 2016; Sotelo, 2015; Allen and Arkolakis, 2014; Bartelme, 2015; Fajgelbaum and Redding, 2014; Tombe and Zhu, 2015; Balboni, 2”
• The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 (2020, unknown): “…the growth of local areas in developing countries (e.g. Banerjee et al., 2012; Faber, 2014; Storeygard, 2016; Jedwab and Moradi, 2016; Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016; Donaldson, 2018) (for comprehensive overviews of the literature, see Redding and Turner (2015) and Berg et al. (2015)).3 More…”
• Agglomeration Effects in Colombia (2016, unknown): “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.”
• Transport Policies and Development (2015, background): “For instance, Lall et al (2004) and Donaldson and Hornbeck (2013) focus on a “market access index”, which they note is superior to local road density measures as it allows one to consider how local accessibility is affected by changes occurring throughout the network. Other similar examples include ”