The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010
Remi Jedwab, Adam Storeygard
Previous work on transportation investments has focused on average impacts in high- and middle-income countries. We estimate average and heterogeneous effects in a poor continent, Africa, using roads and cities data spanning 50 years in 39 countries. Using changes in market access due to distant road construction as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate a 30-year elasticity of city population with respect to market access of about 0.08-0.13. Our results suggest that this elasticity is stronger for small and remote cities, and weaker in politically favored and agriculturally suitable areas. Access to foreign cities besides international ports matters little. Additional evidence points suggestively to rural-urban migration as the primary source of this population increase, though we cannot fully rule out natural increase or reallocation across cities
Year of publication: |
August 2020
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Authors: | Jedwab, Remi |
Other Persons: | Storeygard, Adam (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
2020: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Subsahara-Afrika | Sub-Saharan Africa | Infrastrukturinvestition | Infrastructure investment | Transportkosten | Transport costs | Autobahn | Motorway | Stadtwachstum | Urban growth | Verkehrsinfrastruktur | Transport infrastructure |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white) |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w27670 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w27670 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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