Hornbeck, Richard <br/><br/>
Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies 

 -  Journal of Political Economy  2024 
 - 3547-3602 
<br/><br/> We examine aggregate economic gains in the United States as the railroad network expanded in the nineteenth century. Using data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate relative increases in county aggregate productivity from relative increases in cou 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>0022-3808 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Aggregate Productivity Growth<br/> Distorted Economies<br/> Railroad Network<br/> Total Factor Productivity (TFPR)<br/>Rails