History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya

2017

179 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a73689fd63966ad9084dc7570355d1a945c3ce6b

Citations in the corpus

• The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa (2016, unknown): “3 In a companion paper (Jedwab et al., 2014), we use the construction and demise of colonial railroads as well as the settlement and exodus of skilled Europeans and Indians in Kenya to study urban path dependence in the face of shocks to both physical and human capital.”
• Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India (2018, unknown): “Finally, an emerging body of work has shown urban infrastructure to create long-term path dependencies (Bleakley and Lin, 2012; Berger and Enflo, 2015; Jedwab et al., 2017), and future research should also explore persistence in the economic effects of rural infrastructure.”