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- 《Journal of Computer Information Systems》 被引量: 31发表: 2001年 Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, I collect ...
Growth against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico . By John H. Coatsworth. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1981. Pp. xvii, 249. Nor does he provide an economic discussion of the motivations for and the effects of the cartels and the strikes....
We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that raiHaines , Michael R.Margo, Robert A.Social Science Electronic PublishingHaines, M. and R.A. Margo (2008): "Railroads and Local ...
This paper has two aims: first, to highlight the wider economic benefits of transport infrastructure from the observed role of railroads and waterways in economic development, and two by reviewing recent theoretical developments to identify the multiple causal mechanisms which link transport and ...
The mid-1800s saw a great expansion of American railroads.The major cities east of the Mississippi River were linked by a spiderweb of railroad tracks.Chicago's growth illustrates the impact of these rail links.In 1849 Chicago was a village of a few hundred people with virtually no rail serv...
The economic effects of railroad construction in 19th Century America have been studied extensively in the economic history literature, starting with Fogel (1964) and Fishlow (1965) who quantified the impact of the railroads on American economic growth. More recently, the creation of GIS databases ...
This paper summarizes the research conducted as part of a larger project to evaluate the state of the practice in methodologies that estimate the benefits generated by freight rail projects. The research examined existing research, case studies, and benefit-cost analyses and economic impact analyses ...
However, the total impact on each county is captured by changes in that countys “market access,” a reduced-form expression derived from general equilibrium trade theory. We measure counties market access by constructing a network database of railroads and waterways and calculating lowest-cost ...
Assessing the Impact of Railroad Modernization on the Socio-Economic Regional Development Russian railroads are a major factor in the economic development of the regions. To date, they provide the volume of freight and passenger traffic and are ... Y Popova - Springer, Cham 被引量: 0发表: 202...