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Reply to Cox, Gordon, and Redfearn's Comment on "Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?"
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - In: Econ Journal Watch 5 (2008) 1, pp. 46-50
Wendell Cox, Peter Gordon, and Christian Redfearn have commented on a paper of mine that gives evidence of a strong and large causal relationship between highway construction and central city population declines in the United States between 1950 and 1990. Cox, Gordon, and Redfearn are skeptical...
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Why did Highways Cause Suburbanization? The Role of Highway Congestion
Adachi, Yusuke - 2020
workplace. This model indicates that congestion on commuting causes population and employment suburbanization.To examine the …
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Freeway revolts!
Brinkman, Jeffrey C.; Lin, Jeffrey - 2019
Freeway revolts were widespread protests across the U.S. following early urban Interstate construction in the mid-1950s. We present theory and evidence from panel data on neighborhoods and travel behavior to show that diminished quality of life from freeway disamenities inspired the revolts,...
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Freeway revolts!
Brinkman, Jeffrey C.; Lin, Jeffrey - 2022
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Express delivery to the suburbs : the effects of transportation in Europe's heterogeneous cities
Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias; … - 2016
This paper provides evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of … suburbanization using a two-step panel approach. Our main results suggest that an additional highway ray displaced approximately 4% of … railways on average. However, railways did cause suburbanization those located in Central-North Europe. When employing the full …
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Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline, 1950–2000
Boustan, Leah; Shertzer, Allison - In: Demography 50 (2013) 1, pp. 125-147
The share of metropolitan residents living in central cities declined dramatically from 1950 to 2000. We argue that cities would have lost even further ground if not for demographic trends such as renewed immigration, delayed childbearing, and a decline in the share of households headed by...
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The long shadow of history: Roman legacy and economic development - evidence from the German limes
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This paper contributes to the understanding of the long-run consequences of Roman rule on economic development. In ancient times, the area of contemporary Germany was divided into a Roman and non-Roman part. The study uses this division to test whether the formerly Roman part of Germany show a...
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A Scale-Free Transportation Network Explains the City-Size Distribution
Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - 2012
Zipf's law is one of the best-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the examination...
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Explaining Port Size: Accessibility, Hinterland Competition and a Semi-Endogenously Determined W.
Vanoutrive, Thomas - 2012
There is an ongoing debate on the concentration of container throughput in the European container port system. A particular feature is the dominant position of ports located in the Hamburg-Le Havre range. Some proponents of southern European ports argue that a shift in port traffic from the...
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Do public transport improvements increase employment and income in a city?
Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - 2013
Previous researches have proved the existence of a causal relationship between the concentration of jobs in a city and the income of inhabitants. Other researchers have studied the close and even nearly causal relationship between those variables and the degree of accessibility or of...
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