Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2017-11-17
Number: 17-109/VIII
Author-Name: Or Levkovich
Author-Email: o.d.levkovich@vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Spatial Economics, VU University
Author-Name: Jan Rouwendal
Author-Email: j.rouwendal@vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Tinbergen Institute
Author-Name: Jos van Ommeren
Author-Email: jos.van.ommeren@vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Tinbergen Institute
Title: The impact of highways on population redistribution: The role of land development restrictions
Abstract: We study the role of land development restrictions for the effects of highway expansion on the spatial distribution of population. We demonstrate that these restrictions strongly interfered with the effects of highways in the Netherlands. 
Introducing an IV approach to address endogenous interaction variables, our findings show that new highways accelerated population growth in peripheral areas, but had no such effect in central cities and suburban municipalities. We find that due to development restrictions near larger cities, the highway expansion caused a ‘leapfrog’ pattern, in which suburban growth skipped development-restricted areas and expanded into farther located peripheral areas.
Classification-JEL: R11, R58, R52
Keywords: highways, development restrictions, population redistribution, suburbanization, instrumental variables, endogenous interaction variables
File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/17109.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20170109