Roads, Railways and Decentralization of Chinese Cities (IGC Working Paper)

By Nathaniel Baum-Snow, L. Brandt, J. Henderson, Matthew A. Turner, Qinghua Zhang, Magda Besiada, Z. Rong, Jie Wang, Huaihong Ciao, Yujin Su and 4 more. 2012

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Citations in the corpus

• Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India (2020, background): “∆ log(Yc) = a ·∆Sc +b ·∆ log(areac)+ηc (11)”
• Growing through Cities in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “This type of strategy is further 32 Baum-Snow et al. (2013) also examine roads and confirm for China the findings of Baum-Snow (2007) regarding the importance of roads for residential decentralization. They find no effect of roads on the location of manufacturing activity, which may not be surprisin”
• Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, background): “Turner, and Qinghua Zhang (2013). Roads, Railroads and Decentralization of Chinese Cities. Working Paper, Brown University. Baum-Snow, Nathaniel and Matthew A. Turner (2012). Transportation and the Decentralization of Chinese Cities. Working Paper, Brown University. Berger, Thor and Kerstin Enflo (2”
• Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “), reduce the risk of famine (Burgess and Donaldson, 2012), increase migration (Morten and Oliveira, 2017) and accelerate urban decentralization (Baum-Snow et al., 2017).”
• Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An Analysis of Night-Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India Using the SHRUG Open Data Platform (2021, background): “…GDP, urban extent, public expenditure, and electricity supply and demand, among other variables (Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil 2011; Baum-Snow et al. 2017; Bleakley and Lin 2012; Min et al. 2013; Hodler and Raschky 2014; Baskaran, Min, and Uppal 2015; Burlig and Preonas 2016;…”
• Career Incentives of City Leaders and Urban Spatial Expansion in China (2020, background): “High-incentive city leaders may be appointed to cities with better transportation infrastructure, which facilitates outward urban expansion (Burchfield et al., 2006; Baum-Snow, 2007; Baum-Snow et al., 2017).”