The role of aviation networks for urban development

IF 3.2 3区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Anca D. Cristea
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Abstract

City officials are continuously working to attract airlines willing to fly to new destinations. The inherent expectation is that a more extensive aviation network stimulates economic growth. This paper investigates empirically the causal implication of this hypothesis. Using data on nonstop flights by origin and destination over the period 1984–2013, we propose a new measure for a metropolitan area's connectivity to the national aviation network. We then use this measure to investigate its contribution to local economic development, as captured by the growth in population, in total employment, in per-capita income, and new firm entry. To ensure causality, we use instrumental variable methods that exploit geography and destination airports growth as a way to capture the exogenous variation in the likelihood to add new travel routes. Our results suggest that a metropolitan area's air connectivity, resulting from an expansive local aviation network, has a positive effect on population, on employment and on the number of businesses established in that location.

航空网络在城市发展中的作用
市政府官员正在不断努力吸引愿意飞往新目的地的航空公司。固有的期望是,更广泛的航空网络将刺激经济增长。本文实证研究了这一假说的因果含义。利用1984-2001年期间按始发地和目的地划分的直达航班数据,我们提出了一种衡量城市与国家航空网络连通性的新方法。然后,我们使用这一指标来调查其对当地经济发展的贡献,如人口、总就业、人均收入和新公司进入的增长所反映的那样。为了确保因果关系,我们使用工具变量方法,利用目的地城市的地理和天气模式来捕捉增加新旅行路线的可能性的外生变化。我们的研究结果表明,一个城市的航空连通性,由广泛的当地航空网络产生,对人口规模、就业水平和在该地区建立的企业数量都有积极影响。JEL:O18,R1,R4
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Regional Science (JRS) publishes original analytical research at the intersection of economics and quantitative geography. Since 1958, the JRS has published leading contributions to urban and regional thought including rigorous methodological contributions and seminal theoretical pieces. The JRS is one of the most highly cited journals in urban and regional research, planning, geography, and the environment. The JRS publishes work that advances our understanding of the geographic dimensions of urban and regional economies, human settlements, and policies related to cities and regions.
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