Infrastructure Complementarities and Local Economic Growth

• Tác giả: Harris Selod
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.9 Economic development and growth
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 305818
• Chủ đề: 1. BRAZIL; 2. ELECTRICITY; 3. HIGHWAYS; 4. INFRASTRUCTURE COMPLEMENTARIES; 5. LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Tóm tắt

This paper uses four decades of data on Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification strategy employs difference-in-difference estimators with staggered adoption design. The results show strong contemporaneous effects of electrifying municipalities that already have access to a highway, whereas electrification or highway provision alone may, at best, have no effect. Infrastructure investments also facilitated long-lasting structural transformation effects, with both types of infrastructure access spurring growth of the industrial output share.