Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level

Journal of Economic Growth

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 339-368

  Motamed, Mesbah J ^a   Florax, Raymond J G M ^b,c,d   Masters, William A ^e  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Economic geography; Economic growth; Transportation; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905739287     PISSN: 13814338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10887-014-9104-x     Document Type: Article

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