Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 489-520Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbw013
Keywords
Transportation costs; high-speed rail; distributional impact; China
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Infrastructure investment may reshape economic activities. In this article, I examine the distributional impacts of high-speed rail upgrades in China, which have improved passengers' access to high-speed train services in the city nodes but have left the peripheral counties along the upgraded railway lines bypassed by the services. By exploiting the quasi-experimental variation in whether counties were affected by this project, my analysis suggests that the affected counties on the upgraded railway lines experienced reductions in GDP and GDP per capita following the upgrade, which was largely driven by the concurrent drop in fixed asset investments. This article provides the first empirical evidence on how transportation costs of people affect urban peripheral patterns.
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