Garcia-López, Miquel-Ángel; Holl, Adelheid; … - In: Journal of Urban Economics 85 (2015) C, pp. 52-67
We estimate the effects of highways on the suburbanization of Spanish cities. Based on Spain’s historical roads – the almost 2000years old Roman roads and the 1760 Bourbon roads –, we rely on an instrumental variables (IV) strategy because of the endogeneity of highway provision. Our...