Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US

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The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, methodology): “The distance from the exploration routes of Mendoza (1535-1537) and Cabeza de Vaca (1541-1542) serves as a proxy for the isolation of the Jesuit missions (in the spirit of Duranton et al. 2014).”
Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, background): “Since a good route for a man or an animal can be assumed to be also good for a car, the Inca roads will often be good routes for contemporary highways (see Duranton et al., 2014).”
Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, unknown): “Duranton and Turner (2011, 2012) and Duranton et al. (2014) also use the 1947 plan as an instrument for highways, but supplement it with 1898 railroads and an index of continental exploration routes during the 1528–1850 period.”
House Prices, Collateral and Self-Employment (2013, methodology): “To address further the concern that the results might be driven by local demand, we construct a measure of the average distance that firms in an industry ship their goods similar to that used in Duranton, Morrow, and Turner (2013).”