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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) | ||||
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Volume: | Volume 2012 | ||||
| Number: | Number 80 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 42 | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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