| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14640 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14640 |
| Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60 | |
| Jeremy Atack; Fred Bateman; Michael Haines; Robert A. Margo | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-01-08 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | For generations of scholars and observers, the "transportation revolution," especially the railroad, has loomed large as a dominant factor in the settlement and development of the United States in the nineteenth century. There has, however, been considerable debate as to whether transportation improvements led economic development or simply followed. Using a newly developed GIS transportation database we examine this issue in the context of the American Midwest, focusing on two indicators of broader economic change, population density and the fraction of population living in urban areas. Our difference in differences estimates (supported by IV robustness checks) strongly suggest that the coming of the railroad had little or no impact upon population densities just as Albert Fishlow concluded some 40 years ago. BUT, our results also imply that the railroad was the "cause" of midwestern urbanization, accounting for more than half of the increase in the fraction of population living in urban areas during the 1850s. |
| 主题 | History ; Macroeconomic History ; Other History ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14640 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572314 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jeremy Atack,Fred Bateman,Michael Haines,et al. Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60. 2009. |
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| w14640.pdf（187KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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