Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico

This paper estimates the impacts of road improvements on local employment and specialization in Mexico for 1986-2014, through changes in access to domestic markets and travel costs to ports and the U.S. border. Instrumenting for road placement endo...

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Main Authors:	Blankespoor, Brian, Bougna, Theophile, Garduno-Rivera, Rafael, Selod, Harris
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ROADS MARKET ACCESS MARKET POTENTIAL SPECIALIZATION INDUSTRIAL LOCATION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/537921509032586880/Roads-and-the-geography-of-economic-activities-in-Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28611

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spelling	okr-10986-286112021-06-08T14:42:45Z Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico Blankespoor, Brian Bougna, Theophile Garduno-Rivera, Rafael Selod, Harris ROADS MARKET ACCESS MARKET POTENTIAL SPECIALIZATION INDUSTRIAL LOCATION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY This paper estimates the impacts of road improvements on local employment and specialization in Mexico for 1986-2014, through changes in access to domestic markets and travel costs to ports and the U.S. border. Instrumenting for road placement endogeneity and addressing the recursion problem in regressions that involve access to markets, the analysis finds significant and positive causal effects of improved domestic accessibility on employment and specialization. It also finds that employment is stimulated by lower transport costs to the U.S. border, but harmed by lower transport costs to ports. Heterogeneous effects are found across sectors and regions. 2017-10-30T21:31:10Z 2017-10-30T21:31:10Z 2017-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/537921509032586880/Roads-and-the-geography-of-economic-activities-in-Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28611 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8226 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Mexico
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topic	ROADS MARKET ACCESS MARKET POTENTIAL SPECIALIZATION INDUSTRIAL LOCATION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
spellingShingle	ROADS MARKET ACCESS MARKET POTENTIAL SPECIALIZATION INDUSTRIAL LOCATION ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Blankespoor, Brian Bougna, Theophile Garduno-Rivera, Rafael Selod, Harris Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
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description	This paper estimates the impacts of road improvements on local employment and specialization in Mexico for 1986-2014, through changes in access to domestic markets and travel costs to ports and the U.S. border. Instrumenting for road placement endogeneity and addressing the recursion problem in regressions that involve access to markets, the analysis finds significant and positive causal effects of improved domestic accessibility on employment and specialization. It also finds that employment is stimulated by lower transport costs to the U.S. border, but harmed by lower transport costs to ports. Heterogeneous effects are found across sectors and regions.
format	Working Paper
author	Blankespoor, Brian Bougna, Theophile Garduno-Rivera, Rafael Selod, Harris
author_facet	Blankespoor, Brian Bougna, Theophile Garduno-Rivera, Rafael Selod, Harris
author_sort	Blankespoor, Brian
title	Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
title_short	Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
title_full	Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
title_fullStr	Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	Roads and the Geography of Economic Activities in Mexico
title_sort	roads and the geography of economic activities in mexico
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/537921509032586880/Roads-and-the-geography-of-economic-activities-in-Mexico http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28611
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