Evidence on the political economy of the urbanization process
Evidence on the political economy of the urbanization process
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DOI：
10.1016/s0094-1190(02)00504-1
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Henderson, JV
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作者：
Davis, JC;Henderson, JV
随着一个国家从农村农业基地向城市工业基地转变，城市化和经济发展是齐头并进的。本文认为，城市化本身是随着基本部门从农业转移出来而发生的，而政府政策，如价格管制和工业贸易保护，只是通过它们对部门构成的影响来间接影响这一过程。然而，城市集中度，即一个国家的城市资源集中在一个或两个大城市，而不是更均匀地分布在一个或两个大城市的程度，更直接地受到政策和政治的影响。论文特别发现，对区域间基础设施的投资促进了城市从主要城市向内陆城市的分散，就像增加民主化或增加财政分权一样，这一发现超越了在数据中建立基本相关性的范围，而是试图在带有工具变量估计的面板框架中量化因果关系。(C)2003年埃尔塞维尔科学公司(美国)。版权所有。
Urbanization and economic development go hand-in-hand as a country moves from a rural-agricultural base to an urban-industrial base. This paper argues that urbanization per se occurs in response to the basic sector shift out of agriculture, and government policies such as price controls and trade protection of industry affect the process only indirectly through their effect on sector composition. However, urban concentration, the extent to which a country's urban resources are concentrated in one or two large cities as opposed to more evenly spread, is much more directly affected by policies and politics. The paper finds specifically that investments in inter-regional infrastructure facilitates urban deconcentration away from primate to hinterland cities, as does increasing democratization or increasing fiscal decentralization, The findings move beyond establishing basic correlations in the data to trying to quantify Causal effect,., in a panel framework with instrumental variables estimation. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.