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Transport infrastructure, urban growth, and market access in China

Highways, market access, and urban growth in China (Working paper)

Working paper 19 Aug 2016 Cities

Authors

Nathaniel Baum-Snow

Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Studies, Brown University

Loren Brandt

Professor of Economics, University of Toronto

Vernon Henderson

School Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Matthew Turner

Professor of Economics at USC, University of Southern California

Qinghua Zhang

Associate Professor of Economics, Beijing University
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