Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a
dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman
Empire

J 2020

Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire

HANEDAR, AO a Sezgin UYSAL

Základní údaje

Originální název

Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire

Autoři

HANEDAR, AO a Sezgin UYSAL

Vydání

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF DEVELOPING REGIONS, ABINGDON, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020, 2078-0389

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2020.1757424

UT WoS

000549610800001

Klíčová slova anglicky

Railroads; the Ottoman Empire; economic development; population growth; 2SLS

Změněno: 11. 3. 2024 13:49, Sezgin Uysal, MSc.

Anotace

V originále

In the nineteenth century, railroads brought a substantial shift in trade and production worldwide. While this motivated underdeveloped economies to massively invest in this transportation technology, the literature on the impact of railroads includes mixed findings from a historical perspective. Using a new dataset on the population of judicial districts and railroads in the Ottoman Empire between 1881 and 1914, we examine the relationship between railroad access and economic growth in the local economies of a developing and little-known country on the eve of the First World War. Our empirical results confirm the population size expansion in the areas affected by railroads. This impact could be connected with economic growth in the Ottoman Empire, leading to higher employment opportunities and fertility rates, based on the arguments of historical research. To deal with endogeneity problems, we use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy. Our 2SLS results also indicate the presence of causality from access to railroads to population growth. The paper contributes to the previous literature by offering new empirical insights on the long debated topic about how transformation of transport networks induced economic growth in an agricultural economy facing drastic changes during the first globalization boom.

Citovat

HANEDAR, AO a Sezgin UYSAL. Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire. ECONOMIC HISTORY OF DEVELOPING REGIONS. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020, roč. 35, č. 3, s. 195-215. ISSN 2078-0389. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2020.1757424.

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HANEDAR, AO a Sezgin UYSAL. Transportation infrastructure and economic growth in a dissolving country: (Ir)relevance of railroads in the Ottoman Empire. \textit{ECONOMIC HISTORY OF DEVELOPING REGIONS}. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR \&{}amp; FRANCIS LTD, 2020, roč.~35, č.~3, s.~195-215. ISSN~2078-0389. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2020.1757424.

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