TY  - SER
AU  - Hornbeck, Richard
AU  -  Rotemberg, Martin
TI  - Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies
SN  - 0022-3808
PB  - Journal of Political Economy
KW  -  Aggregate Productivity Growth
KW  -  Distorted Economies
KW  -  Railroad Network
KW  -  Total Factor Productivity (TFPR)
KW  - Rails
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730548
ER  -