This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the deployment of Israeli army road obstacles in the West Bank during 2004-2012 to quantify the marginal effects of market access on the local economies of Palestinian locations. We construct a comprehensive metric of market accessibility to assess how obstacles affect locality-level growth, proxied for by nighttime lights. Panel regressions find a 10% relative increase in market accessibility generates a 1-3% relative increase in a location’s growth rate of lights.
TI Complexity in Economics Seminars
- Speaker(s)
- Roy van der Weide (World Bank, United States)
- Date
- Wednesday, 15 March 2017
- Location
- Amsterdam