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Subways and Urban Growth : Evidence from Earth

Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco - 2018

We investigate the relationship between the extent of a city's subway network, its population and its spatial configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization calculated from lights at night data, and the extent of...

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Does Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth?

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2018

We investigate the effects of the recently constructed Chinese national highway system on local economic outcomes. On average, roads that improve access to local markets have small or negative effects on prefecture economic activity and population. However, these averages mask a distinct pattern...

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Subways and Urban Air Pollution

Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas - 2018

We investigate the relationship between the opening of a city's subway network and its air quality. We find that particulate concentrations drop by 4% in a 10km radius disk surrounding a city center following a subway system opening. The effect is larger near the city center and persists over...

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Urbanization in the Developing World : Too Early or Too Slow?

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2020

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … structural transformation has suggested that urbanization in the developing is occurring `too early', while another strand argues …

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