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Roads and Urban Growth

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  • Ferdinand Rauch
  • Paul Brandily

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P. Brandily, F. Rauch Roads are essential to facilitate interactions in cities. A sub-optimal road layout in cities and towns may inhibit interactions and constrain urban population growth. Using data from over 1800 cities and towns from Sub-Saharan Africa, and an instrument based on the history of foundation ages of cities in Africa, we study the relationship between the road layout of a city and its population growth. We show that cities characterised by low road density in the city centre experience less population growth in recent decades.

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  • Ferdinand Rauch & Paul Brandily, 2018. "Roads and Urban Growth," Economics Series Working Papers 859, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxf:wpaper:859
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    Cited by:

    1. Gharad Bryan & Edward Glaeser & Nick Tsivanidis, 2019. "Cities in the Developing World," NBER Working Papers 26390, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Despina Gavresi & Anastasia Litina & George Tsiachtsiras, 2022. "Railways and Roadways to Trust," Discussion Paper Series 2022_08, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, revised Sep 2022.

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    Keywords

    Road layout; Urban planning; Urbanization; Sub-Saharan Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • R4 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics

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