Does Public Infrastructure Affect Economic Activity?: Evidence from the Rural Interstate Highway System

By A. Chandra, Eric Thompson. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, background): “…of 0.5% in 2003 (see MEF, 2013).8 Second, 4 There is a large number of studies showing that international transport costs have a significant negative impact on trade (see, e.g., Hummels, 2001; Limão and Venables, 2001; Clark et al. 2004; Blonigen and Wilson, 2008; Mesquita Moreira et al., 2008).”
New road infrastructure: The effects on firms (2019, background): “Alternatives include whether an area is crossed by a highway e.g. Chandra and Thompson, 2000; Michaels, 2008; Faber, 2014 ), kiloetres of roads in an area ( Melo et al., 2010; Duranton and Turner, 011 ), distance to closest highway ( Baum-Snow, 2007; Ghani et al., 016 ), number of radial roads from…”
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings (2010, background): “For example, the construction of a new road intended for an MDP may also benefit the productivity of some of the incumbent firms (Chandra and Thompson 2000).”
Roads, Railways and Decentralization of Chinese Cities (IGC Working Paper) (2012, neutral): “Michaels (2008) and Chandra and Thompson (2000) investigate the effects of U.S. interstate highways on the development of rural U.S. counties and Duranton, Morrow and Turner (2011) examine the effects of the interstate highway system on trade between cities.”
Transport Infrastructure Development, Public Performance and Long-Run Economic Growth: A Case Study for the Eu-28 Countries (2018, background): “Other studies [48,49] find little evidence on the relationship between transport infrastructure and economic growth.”
The Gains from Market Integration (2015, background): “Readers are referred to, for example, Chandra & Thompson (2000) on the location of economic activity, Michaels (2008) onwage inequality, Duranton&Turner (2011) on urban traffic, Rothenberg (2013) on firm location choices, Duranton et al. (2014) on US cities’ trade patterns, Coşar & Demir (2014) on…”
Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda (2011, neutral): “These observations fit into what Chandra and Thompson (2000) refer to as an ‘exogenous event’: in principle, the placement of infrastructure such as roads or electricity is in most cases endogenous from an evaluative perspective, because it is based on reasons that are correlated with the outcome in”
From periphery to core: measuring agglomeration effects using high-speed rail (2018, background): “This approach rests on the assumption that the main purpose of a transport infrastructure is often to connect regional agglomerations and that the connection of localities along the way is not necessarily intended (Chandra & Thompson, 2000; Michaels, 2008).”