Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/330826 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) [ISSN:] 2749-988X [Volume:] 4 [Article No.:] 2025-5 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 1-10
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
Rogowski et al. (2022) use secondary data to study the impact of historic postal infrastructure on economic development, both cross-country and within the US. Their results suggest a large positive effect of post offices on economic development that is robust across various sensitivity checks. We successfully computationally reproduce all results. In a robustness assessment, we find the results to be robust to simple changes in the analysis but observe some sensitivity to accounting for spatial trends in the long-term cross-country analysis. Despite this, we find the results to be overall robust given the numerous analyses and robustness checks in the original paper.
Subjects: 
Reproduction
Infrastructure
Postal Services
JEL: 
A1
O18
L87
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Document Type: 
Article

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