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Hornbeck, Richard - 2019

We examine impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the 19th century. Using new county-by-industry data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative...

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Regional Growth and Migration : A Japan-U.S. Comparison

Barro, Robert J. - 1992

Do poor economies grow faster than rich ones? This important economic question (which we call [beta]-convergence) is … of convergence in both countries: poor prefectures and states grow faster. We also find that there is intraregional as … well as interregional convergence. We analyze the cross sectional standard deviation across prefectures and states. We find …

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Railroads and American Economic Growth : A "Market Access" Approach

Donaldson, Dave - 2013

This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by...

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Regional cohesion : evidence and theories of regional growth and convergence

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1994

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The classical approach to convergence analysis

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1995

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