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Railroads and micro-regional growth in Prussia

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Hornung, Erik (2012) Railroads and micro-regional growth in Prussia. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: Department of Economics, University of Warwick. CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Volume 2012 (Number 80).

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Abstract

We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using
GIS techniques, we match triennial population data for roughly 1000 cities in
nineteenth-century Prussia to georeferenced maps of the German railroad network.
We find positive short- and long-term effects of having a station on urban
growth for different periods during 1840-1871. Causal
effects of (potentially
endogenous) railroad access on city growth are identified using instrumentalvariable
and xed-effects estimation techniques. Our instrument identifies exogenous
variation in railroad access by constructing straight-line corridors between
terminal stations. Counterfactual models using pre-railroad growth yield
no evidence in support of the hypothesis that railroads appeared as a consequence
of a previous growth spurt.

Item Type: Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper)
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics
H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
T Technology > TF Railroad engineering and operation
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Railroad stations -- Prussia, Prussia (Germany) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Railroads -- Prussia, Population -- Economic aspects , Population -- History
Series Name: CAGE Online Working Paper Series
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Place of Publication: Coventry, UK
Official Date: 2012
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2012Published
Volume: Volume 2012
Number: Number 80
Number of Pages: 42
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Date of first compliant deposit: 1 August 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 1 August 2016

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