Railroads of the Raj：Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
作者Dave Donaldson， LES毕业，这篇论文是他的JMP，现在正处于修改重新提交给AER的过程中。

Publications



What Goods Do Countries Trade? A Quantitative Exploration of the Ricardian Mode
Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies, (with Arnaud Costinot and Ivana Komunjer.)




Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era
2011, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (with Robin Burgess).






Abstract
How large are the benets of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains
these benets? To shed new light on these questions, this paper uses archival data from
colonial India to investigate the impact of India's vast railroad network. Guided by four
predictions from a general equilibrium trade model, I nd that railroads: (1) decreased
trade costs and interregional price gaps; (2) increased interregional and international
trade; (3) increased real income levels; and (4), that a sucient statistic for the eect
of railroads on welfare in the model (an eect that is purely due to newly exploited
gains from trade) accounts for virtually all of the observed reduced-form impact of
railroads on real income in the data. I nd no spurious eects from over 40,000 km of
lines that were approved but|for four dierent reasons|were never built.



我第一次看到这篇论文的时候还不知道它已经投到了ARE，但觉得非常有趣味性，而且做了大量工作，值得分享给大家。


我们可以与另外一篇论文On the Road对比着读。https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-1113189-1-1.html

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