1 论文标题
On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
2 作者信息
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Nancy Qian
3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
NBER Working Paper No. 17897 Issued in March 2012
4 摘要

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical cities. Our results show that proximity to transportation networks have a moderate positive causal effect on per capita GDP levels across sectors, but no effect on per capita GDP growth. We provide a simple theoretical framework with empirically testable predictions to interpret our results. We argue that our results are consistent with factor mobility playing an important role in determining the economic benefits of infrastructure development.