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Fenske, James, Kala, Namrata and Wei, Jinlin (2023) Railways and cities in India. Journal of Development Economics, 161 . 103038. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103038 ISSN 0304-3878.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103038
Abstract
Using a new dataset on city populations in colonial India, we show that the railroad network increased city size in the period 1881 to 1931. Our baseline estimation approach includes fixed effects for city and year, and we construct instrumental variables for railroad proximity based on distance from a least cost path spanning cities that existed prior to the start of railroad construction. Cities that increased market access due to the railroad grew. The small and heterogeneous effects we find are driven largely by cities that were initially small and isolated.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Railroads -- India, Railroads -- India -- Economic history, Economic development -- India, Regional planning -- India | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Development Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0304-3878 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 161 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 103038 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.103038 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 January 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 January 2023 |
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