Landmines and Spatial Development

Chiovelli, Giorgio; Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias

doi:10.3386/w24758

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“…Our strategy of isolating variation from non-local changes to the road network is akin to using "friends of friends" to estimate peer effects (e.g., Bramoullé et al, 2009;Calvo-Armengol et al, 2009;Mian et al, 2011;Goldsmith-Pinkham and Imbens, 2013). However, to our knowledge this strategy has been used rarely to study the effects of infrastructure, notable exceptions being Schlenker and Walker (2016) and Chiovelli, Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2018). 6 Indeed, with respect to the typology of identification strategies introduced by Redding and Turner (2015), our sample of 39 countries is not a context in which comprehensive planned or historical networks are available, our broad scope limits the possibility of randomized experiments and regression discontinuity designs, and the inconsequential places approach is also not appropriate because of the piecemeal nature of much of the road construction.…”

Section: The Average and Heterogeneous Effects Of Transportation Invementioning

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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Jedwab¹,

Storeygard²

2020

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Previous work on transportation investments has focused on average impacts in high-and middle-income countries. We estimate average and heterogeneous effects in a poor continent, Africa, using roads and cities data spanning 50 years in 39 countries. Using changes in market access due to distant road construction as a source of exogenous variation, we estimate an 30-year elasticity of city population with respect to market access of 0.06-0.18. Our results suggest that this elasticity is stronger for small and remote cities, and weaker in politically favored and agriculturally suitable areas. Access to foreign cities matters little.

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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Jedwab¹,

Storeygard²

2020

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“…Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil (2012) Tanzania, Nigeria, and the DRC). In Figure 4 we plot the correlation between log luminosity and the DHS composite wealth index across admin-3 level units, netting out country-survey fixed effects (see Chiovelli, Michalopoulos, and Papaioannou (2017)). The data are retrieved from 74 DHS surveys that cover close to 9 000 third-level administrative units from 21 African countries.…”

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Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach

Michalopoulos

Papaioannou

2018

Annu. Rev. Econ.

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Over the past two decades, the literature on comparative development has moved from country-level to within-country analyses. The questions asked have expanded in scope as economists have used satellite images of light density at night and other big spatial data to proxy for development at the desired level. The focus has also shifted from uncovering correlations to identifying causal relations, using elaborate econometric techniques including spatial regression discontinuity designs. In this review, we show how the combination of geographic information systems with insights from disciplines ranging from the earth sciences to linguistics and history has transformed the research landscape on the roots of the spatial patterns of development. We discuss the limitations of the luminosity data and associated econometric techniques and conclude by offering some thoughts on future research.

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“…It is not intended to be a growth study for Mozambique and the limitations in terms of data do not allow for a fuller exploration of the determinants of growth over this time period. This task, which constitutes part of the future research agenda, entails taking into account other variables that co-determine growth such as, domestic and foreign investment, international aid, trade, among others and also spatial development aspects along the lines of Chiovelli et al (2018). Furthermore, there are limitations in terms of the construction of the institutional series themselves in that they are de jure measures which may not fully capture how laws are implemented or enforced.…”

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Institutional drivers, historical determinism, and economic development in Mozambique

Pereira

Luiz

2019

IJOEM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of political and economic institutions, their persistence and interdependence and their effects on economic progress in Mozambique. Design/methodology/approach Using a unique data set, which has developed detailed long-run indices of institutional change in Mozambique from 1900 onwards, the research utilizes time-series econometrics to estimate cointegration relations and Vector Autoregressive and Vector Error Correction models, and also Granger causality, correlation and residual analysis when interpreting the estimation results. Findings It shows support for path dependence in political and economic institutions as well as the critical juncture theory and modernization hypothesis, and for webs of association between these institutions and economic development. It provides evidence of an equilibrium-dependent process, where history does matter (as do early conditions), and whose impact may differ depending on the nature of institutional arrangements. Various institutions created during colonial times have a bearing on the present state of institutions in Mozambique, as reflected in important continuities regarding the forms of political economy, among others. Originality/value The work contributes to existing research not only through the employment of a new set of institutional measures, which allows for a particularly long time-series investigation in a developing country setting, but also through its contribution to studies on modernization and critical junctures but in a longitudinal manner which allows for the exploration of complex dynamics embedded within a country’s particular political economy. The implications are far-reaching and carry importance beyond the academy given the pressure on policymakers to get things right because of the persistence of institutions and their consequences and the associated path dependency.

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Landmines and Spatial Development

Abstract: We also thank Chris Woodruff for his support. We also thank seminar participants at the 15th Meeting of State Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, Brown,

Cited by 23 publications

References 26 publications

The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach

Institutional drivers, historical determinism, and economic development in Mozambique

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