Within-city roads and urban growth
In this paper we study the role of within-city roads layout in fostering city growth. Within-city roads networks have not been studied extensively in economics although they are essential to facilitate human interactions, which are at the core of agglomeration economies. We build and compute several...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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September 2024
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Journal of regional science
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, Pages: 1236-1264 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9787 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jors.12699 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12699 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jors.12699 
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| Author Notes: | P. Brandily, F. Rauch |
| Summary: | In this paper we study the role of within-city roads layout in fostering city growth. Within-city roads networks have not been studied extensively in economics although they are essential to facilitate human interactions, which are at the core of agglomeration economies. We build and compute several simple measures of roads network and construct a sample of over 1800 cities and towns from Sub-Saharan Africa. Using a simple econometric model and two instrumental variable strategies based on the history of African cities, we then estimate the causal impact of within-city roads layout on urban growth. We find that over the recent decades, cities with greater road density and road evenness in the centre grew faster. |
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| Item Description: | Online veröffentlicht am 20. März 2024 Gesehen am 14.08.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1467-9787 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jors.12699 |