Bridge to bigpush or backwash? Market integration, reallocation and productivity effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12694576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Blankespoor (0000-0003-1806-8129, The World Bank , 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA), M Shahe Emran (0000-0002-4375-0958, IPD, Columbia University , New York, USA), Forhad Shilpi (0000-0003-0112-8340, The World Bank , 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA, corresponding author), Lu Xu (0009-0003-0179-9977, The World Bank , 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 853-871 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2702 • E-ISSN: 1468-2710 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jeg/lbab024 |
| OpenAlex | W3151189188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 27 |
We study the effects of Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh that reduced the average trade costs by 50% and connected 26 million people by road to the capital city. We use a difference-in-difference design where the isolated Padma hinterland constitutes the comparison. Balance tests for an array of economic characteristics support the parallel trends assumption. The bridge led to economic revival in the Jamuna hinterland with increased agricultural productivity and population density despite a decline in the share of manufacturing employment. The effects are spatially heterogeneous with substantial manufacturing decline in the middle subregion, and the remote areas reaping the highest benefits
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Biology · Bridge (graph theory · Capital (architecture · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Population · Productivity · Significant difference · Statistics · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Global trade and economics · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Demography
Economics of Agglomeration
The Spatial Economy
Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push
Farther on down the Road
Trade Integration, Market Size, and Industrialization
Inverse probability weighted estimation for general missing data problems
People, Places, and Public Policy
Estimation of Regression Coefficients When Some Regressors are not Always Observed
Transport Policies and Development
Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
Access to Markets and Rural Poverty
Roads, Railroads, and Decentralization of Chinese Cities
Productivity, transport costs and subsistence agriculture
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
Benefit-Cost Analysis and Trade Policies
Cities and Specialisation
Railroads of the Raj
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |