Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure

By David J. Donaldson. 2010

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High-speed railways and collaborative innovation (2021, background): “…2012; Lin, 2017), long-term GDP growth (Banerjee et al., 2020), the presence of human capital (Glaeser and Saiz, 2004), urban structure (Baum-Snow et al., 2017), skill premia in the labor market (Michaels, 2008), gains from trade (Donaldson, 2018), and climate and other amenities (Rappaport, 2007).”
Growing through Cities in Developing Countries (2014, neutral): “Consistent with this finding, Combes, Duranton, Gobillon, and Roux (2012c) find that ‘worker skills’, as measured by their fixed effect in a wage regression, do not differ much between less dense and denser areas in France for young workers.”
Climate Change, Agriculture And Poverty (2010, result): “” (Fraser 2007, 8) The latter finding contrasts sharply with of the results of Donaldson (2008) who estimates the impact of railroad access on the volatility of local food prices and real incomes in 19 century India.”
How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs? (2018, background): “Second, several recent studies have analyzed the trade effects of infrastructure projects either within or across countries (Donaldson, 2018; Duranton, Morrow and Turner, 2014; Alder, 2017).”
Difference-in-Differences Estimators of Intertemporal Treatment Effects (2020, positive): “Favara and Imbs (2015) reverse their index, so it can be interpreted as the number of restrictions lifted, ranging from 0 to 4. They then use 1994-to-2005 countylevel data to estimate the effect of the number of regulations lifted on the volume of mortgages originated by banks and on housing prices,”
The price effects of cash versus in-kind transfers (2011, neutral): “price effects in isolated localities in developing countries (Jayachandran, 2006; Donaldson, 2009).”
Roads, exports and employment: Evidence from a developing country (2017, background): “…on: productivity (see Fernald, 1999); relative demand for skilled workers (see Michaels, 2008); suburbanization (see Baum-Snow, 2007); urban growth (see Duranton and Turner, 2012); counties' earnings and market access (see Chandra and Thompson, 2000 and Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016, respectively).”