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Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?
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Between 1950 and 1990, the aggregate population of central cities in the United States declined by 17 percent despite population growth of 72 percent in metropolitan areas as a whole. This paper assesses the extent to which the construction of new limited access highways has contributed to central city population decline. Using planned portions of the interstate highway system as a source of exogenous variation, empirical estimates indicate that one new highway passing through a central city reduces its population by about 18 percent. Estimates imply that aggregate central city population would have grown by about 8 percent had the interstate highway system not been built.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Baum-Snow, N.
- Venue
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-05-01
- Volume
- 122
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 775-805
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-4650
- OpenAlex
- W2015390938
- Cited by
- 1,293
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 57.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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