TY - JOUR
AU - Baum-Snow, Nathaniel
AB - 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.
TI - Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?*
JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DO - 10.1162/qjec.122.2.775
DA - 2007-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/did-highways-cause-suburbanization-jRD4DuydlI
SP - 775
EP - 805
VL - 122
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -