productivity impact of infrastructure investment, there is a lack of research regarding the impact of hydropower projects on firm … investigates whether and how the People's Republic of China's Three Gorges Project (TGP), the world's largest hydropower project … scale effect, and the competition effect, robustly. This productivity impact reveals that hydropower projects have one …

generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In this paper, we document and quantify the importance of this channel by … delays in the construction of highways, we empirically show that productivity grows in places with better transportation … total factor productivity. Then, by calibrating our model on census data between 1998 and 2018, we find that new highways …

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between … cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset ofbilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized … indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumentalvariable to examine the causal impact of …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … marketization accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular … policy to reduce regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

This paper examines the effects of economic integration resulting from highway construction on aggregate productivity … measure for cities in China from 1995 to 2005 using estimated bilateral transportation costs. Then I examine the channels … through which highway infrastructure facilitated aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation across space. I find …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

technical change and TFP growth of provinces. -- Technical change ; total factor productivity growth ; technology indicator …