Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads

Miquel Àngel Garcia-López; Alfonso Herranz-Loncán; Filippo Tassinari; Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101544

Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads

Miquel Àngel Garcia-López, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán^*, Filippo Tassinari, Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

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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 potential associated to road accessibility had a significant effect on local population growth. The impact was substantially higher on the municipalities 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.

Idioma original	Anglès
Número d’article	101544
Nombre de pàgines	22
Revista	Explorations in Economic History
Volum	90
Data online anticipada	3 d’ag. 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101544
Estat de la publicació	Publicada - 7 de set. 2023

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