Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India

The authors investigate the impact of the golden quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 3,633 miles of roads in India. The authors us...

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Main Authors:	Ghani, Ejaz, Goswami, Arti Grover, Kerr, William R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	ROADS HIGHWAY NETWORK SPATIAL ECONOMICS BUSINESS CLUSTER INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FIRM ENTRY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY URBANIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/911911565607517844/Highways-and-Spatial-Location-within-Cities-Evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32235

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spelling	okr-10986-322352021-05-25T10:54:42Z Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India Ghani, Ejaz Goswami, Arti Grover Kerr, William R. ROADS HIGHWAY NETWORK SPATIAL ECONOMICS BUSINESS CLUSTER INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FIRM ENTRY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY URBANIZATION The authors investigate the impact of the golden quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 3,633 miles of roads in India. The authors use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and rural areas of non-nodal districts located 0 to 10 kilometers from GQ. These higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity are not present in districts 10 to 50 kilometers away. The entry effects are stronger in rural areas of districts, but the differences between urban and rural areas are modest relative to the overall effect. For the unorganized sector, we do not find material effects from the GQ upgrades in either setting. These findings suggest that in the time frames that we can consider the first five to seven years during and after upgrades, the economic effects of major highway projects contribute modestly to the migration of the organized sector out of Indian cities but are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. 2019-08-13T18:37:48Z 2019-08-13T18:37:48Z 2016-04-10 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/911911565607517844/Highways-and-Spatial-Location-within-Cities-Evidence-from-India World Bank Economic Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32235 English CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research South Asia India
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topic	ROADS HIGHWAY NETWORK SPATIAL ECONOMICS BUSINESS CLUSTER INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FIRM ENTRY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY URBANIZATION
spellingShingle	ROADS HIGHWAY NETWORK SPATIAL ECONOMICS BUSINESS CLUSTER INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FIRM ENTRY FIRM PRODUCTIVITY URBANIZATION Ghani, Ejaz Goswami, Arti Grover Kerr, William R. Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India
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description	The authors investigate the impact of the golden quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the spatial organization and efficiency of manufacturing activity. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 3,633 miles of roads in India. The authors use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and rural areas of non-nodal districts located 0 to 10 kilometers from GQ. These higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity are not present in districts 10 to 50 kilometers away. The entry effects are stronger in rural areas of districts, but the differences between urban and rural areas are modest relative to the overall effect. For the unorganized sector, we do not find material effects from the GQ upgrades in either setting. These findings suggest that in the time frames that we can consider the first five to seven years during and after upgrades, the economic effects of major highway projects contribute modestly to the migration of the organized sector out of Indian cities but are unrelated to the increased urbanization of the unorganized sector.
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author	Ghani, Ejaz Goswami, Arti Grover Kerr, William R.
author_facet	Ghani, Ejaz Goswami, Arti Grover Kerr, William R.
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title	Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India
title_short	Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India
title_full	Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India
title_fullStr	Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India
title_full_unstemmed	Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India
title_sort	highways and spatial location within cities : evidence from india
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/911911565607517844/Highways-and-Spatial-Location-within-Cities-Evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32235
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Highways and Spatial Location within Cities : Evidence from India

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