Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth

This paper quantifies the impact of market access on local GDP in the West Bank, proxied by nighttime lights, using the deployment of road closure obstacles by the Israeli army between 2005 and 2012 as a quasi-natural experiment generating exogenou...

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Main Authors:	van der Weide, Roy, Rijkers, Bob, Blankespoor, Brian, Abrahams, Alexei
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	ECONOMIC GROWTH MARKET ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/135611522172009978/Obstacles-on-the-road-to-Palestinian-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29565

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spelling	okr-10986-295652021-06-08T14:42:45Z Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth van der Weide, Roy Rijkers, Bob Blankespoor, Brian Abrahams, Alexei ECONOMIC GROWTH MARKET ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE This paper quantifies the impact of market access on local GDP in the West Bank, proxied by nighttime lights, using the deployment of road closure obstacles by the Israeli army between 2005 and 2012 as a quasi-natural experiment generating exogenous temporal and spatial variation in accessibility. Minimum travel times between locality pairs are computed using road network and obstacles data supplemented with information on checkpoint traversal times. These are combined with population data to construct a time-varying market access measure for each locality. Market access has a significant and substantial effect on local light emissions. This association is robust to controlling for conflict, and strengthens when market access is instrumented by the number of obstacles located in a radius between 10 and 25km away from the locality. 2018-03-30T19:25:45Z 2018-03-30T19:25:45Z 2018-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/135611522172009978/Obstacles-on-the-road-to-Palestinian-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29565 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8385 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 Middle East and North Africa West Bank and Gaza
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description	This paper quantifies the impact of market access on local GDP in the West Bank, proxied by nighttime lights, using the deployment of road closure obstacles by the Israeli army between 2005 and 2012 as a quasi-natural experiment generating exogenous temporal and spatial variation in accessibility. Minimum travel times between locality pairs are computed using road network and obstacles data supplemented with information on checkpoint traversal times. These are combined with population data to construct a time-varying market access measure for each locality. Market access has a significant and substantial effect on local light emissions. This association is robust to controlling for conflict, and strengthens when market access is instrumented by the number of obstacles located in a radius between 10 and 25km away from the locality.
format	Working Paper
author	van der Weide, Roy Rijkers, Bob Blankespoor, Brian Abrahams, Alexei
author_facet	van der Weide, Roy Rijkers, Bob Blankespoor, Brian Abrahams, Alexei
author_sort	van der Weide, Roy
title	Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth
title_short	Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth
title_full	Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth
title_fullStr	Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth
title_full_unstemmed	Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth
title_sort	obstacles on the road to palestinian economic growth
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/135611522172009978/Obstacles-on-the-road-to-Palestinian-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29565
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Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth

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