Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247139 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 209
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the impact that Spanish road construction had on local population growth between 1787 and 1857. We find that the increase in market access associated to road accessibility had a substantial effect on local population growth. The impact was substantially higher on the municipalities that were connected earlier and that had a more diversified occupational structure. By contrast, the effect of the new network on population growth was negative in municipalities close but without direct access to the roads. We interpret these findings as evidence of a process of rural-to-rural migration due to the new roads.
Subjects: 
roads
accessibility
market access
population growth
pre-railway transport
Spain
JEL: 
H54
N73
N93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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