Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel

doi:10.1162/qjec.122.2.775

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“…For these reasons, Romans did not adapt roads construction to the environment, but tended to modify the environment for roads construction with a strong preference for straight roads. Several recent contributions have studied the legacy of historical road and transport network on population growth and suburbanisation (Baum-Snow, 2007;Michaels and Rauch, 2014). Carballo et al (2014) studies the effect of infrastructure on trade instrumenting recent changes in the road network with the pre-Columbian Inca road network.…”

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Social closure, surnames and crime

Buonanno

Vanin

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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This paper studies the effect of social closure on crime and tax evasion rates using disaggregated data for Italian municipalities. It measures the degree of social openness of a community by the diversity of its surname distribution, which reflects the history of migration and inbreeding. It shows that, all else equal, communities with a history of social closure have lower crime rates and higher tax evasion rates than more open communities. The effect of social closure is likely to be causal, it is relevant in magnitude, statistically significant, and robust to changes in the set of included controls, in the specific measures of dependent and independent variables, in the specification of the regression equation, and in the possible sample splits. Our findings are consistent with the idea that social closure strengthens social sancions and social control, thus leading to more cooperative outcomes in local interactions, but it reduces cooperation on a larger scale. JEL-Classification: A14, K42, Z13

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Social closure, surnames and crime

Buonanno

Vanin

2017

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…We recover production function coefficients given by Equations (12), (13), and (15) for each of the 143 three-digit industries in the dataset. (To ensure sufficient sample size in each three-digit industry, we adjust industry definitions slightly to ensure each three-digit industry has at least 100 plant-year observations.)…”

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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India

Allcott¹,

Collard-Wexler²,

O’Connell³

2014

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We estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs can be stored during outages. Shortages distort the plant size distribution, as there are significant economies of scale in generator costs and shortages more severely affect plants without generators. Simulations show that offering interruptible retail electricity contracts could substantially reduce the impact of shortages. AbstractWe estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs can be stored during outages. Shortages distort the plant size distribution, as there are significant economies of scale in generator costs and shortages more severely affect plants without generators. Simulations show that offering interruptible retail electricity contracts could substantially reduce the impact of shortages.JEL Codes: D04, D24, L11, L94, O12, O13, Q41.

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“…8 The role of post-war federal transportation policy in the process of suburbanization is discussed in (e.g. Baum-Snow, 2007). unlikely that this role will change.…”

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Form Follows Function: On the Interaction between Real Estate Finance and Urban Spatial Structure

Bieri

2012

SSRN Journal

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Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?

Cited by 940 publications

References 13 publications

Social closure, surnames and crime

Social closure, surnames and crime

How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India

Form Follows Function: On the Interaction between Real Estate Finance and Urban Spatial Structure

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