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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, Nathaniel - 2023

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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Scale Economies, Returns to Variety, and the Productivity of Public Infrastructure

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Lovely, Mary E. - 2021

We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … to variety. Infrastructure alters factor prices, intermediate prices and the allocation of factors across sectors. The …

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Infrastructure and Public R&D Investments, and the Growth of Factor Productivity in Us Manufacturing Industries

Nadiri, M. Ishaq; Mamuneas, Theofanis P. - 2021

In this paper we examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capital on the cost structure and … dominate while in others changes in technology or relative prices are the main contributors. Publicly financed infrastructure …

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State Infrastructure and Productive Performance

Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Schwartz, Amy Ellen - 2021

The impact of public infrastructure investment on the productive performance of firms has been an important focus of …. However, detailed evaluation of the infrastructure impact is difficult using existing studies which rely on restricted models …, nonproduction and production labor and energy) use of manufacturing firms to evaluate the contribution of infrastructure to firms …

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Land Misallocation and Productivity

Restuccia, Diego - 2017

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms controlling for land quality, rain, and other transitory shocks. We find that operated land size and capital are...

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Land Policy : Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802

Grubb, Farley - 2010

Victory in the War for Independence brought a vast amount of land within the grasp of the new American nation -- territory stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River between the southern shores of the Great Lakes and Spanish Florida. These lands were initially claimed by...

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The Assignment of Property Rights on the Western Frontier : Lessons for Contemporary Environmental and Resource Policy

Libecap, Gary D. - 2021

In addressing environmental and natural resource problems, there is a move away from primary reliance upon centralized regulation toward assignment of property rights to mitigate the losses of open-access. I examine the assignment of private property rights during the 19th and early 20th...

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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

The state of Georgia allocated most of its land to the public through a system of lotteries. These episodes provide unusual opportunities to assess the long-term impact of large shocks to wealth, as winning was uncorrelated with individual characteristics and participation was nearly universal...

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The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl : Short and Long-Run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe

Hornbeck, Richard - 2010

The 1930's American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly eroded sections of the Plains. Analyzing new data collected to identify low-, medium-, and high-erosion counties, the Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially, and persistently reduced agricultural land...

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Transportation Choices and the Value of Statistical Life

León Ciliotta, Gianmarco - 2013

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