This paper studies the impact of the rapid expansion of the Brazilian road network, which occurred from the 1960s to the 2000s, on the growth and spatial allocation of population and economic activity across the country's municipalities. It addresses the problem of endogeneity in infrastructure location by using an original empirical strategy, based on the "historical natural experiment" constituted by the creation of the new federal capital city...
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2014/07/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS6964
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2014/07/01
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The Brasilia experiment : road access and the spatial pattern of long-term local development in Brazil
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