Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth?: Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850–1860

By J. Atack, Fred H. Bateman, M. Haines, R. Margo. 2010

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Development effects of electrification : evidence from the geologic placement of hydropower plants in Brazil (2013, unknown): “1 Some recent studies investigate the effects of irrigation dams (Duflo and Pande 2007), highways (Chandra and Thompson 2000, and Michaels 2008), and railroads (Atack et al. 2009, Donaldson 2008, Banerjee, Duflo, Qian 2009). See Estache (2010) for a review of the literature on infrastructure impact ”
‘No county left behind?’ The distributional impact of high-speed rail upgrades in China (2016, unknown): “…between access to infrastructure and various aspects of economic development in both developing and developed countries (Ahlfeldt, 2011; Atack et al., 2010; Banerjee et al., 2012; Baum-Snow, 2007; Baum-Snow et al., 2012; Datta, 2012; Ghani et al., 2012; Donaldson, 2013; Duflo and…”
Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden (2017, background): “First, our results complement a growing body of evidence that examines the causal impact of the railroad on historical development (Atack et al. 2010; Atack, Haines and Margo 2008; Keller and Shiue 2008; Donaldson 2013; Donaldson and Hornbeck 2012), as well as recent efforts to disentangle the impac”
Railroads and Growth in Prussia (2014, unknown): “Similar to the approaches taken by Atack et al. (2010) and Banerjee,”
The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa (2016, unknown): “Transportation infrastructure may promote urbanization, when reduced trade costs boost trade and raise incomes, as in Atack et al. (2010) and Fajgelbaum and Redding (2014).”
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China (2012, methodology): “The estimating equation is identical to the previous estimating equation, equation (1), except that the dependent variables are now the outcomes of interest.”
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya (2017, unknown): “…across countries (Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson, 2001) – does not appear to be a significant channel within Kenya.1 Our focus on transportation is associated with the recent literature on railroads and economic growth (Atack et al., 2010; Banerjee, Duflo & Qian, 2012; Baum-Snow et al., 2012, 2014; ?”