Future interstate highway system demands: Predictions based on population projections

The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill – Evidence from the Interstate Highway System

Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for skilled labor. The Interstate Highway ...

Population and Interstate Conflicts

Population trends are in two-way relationships with the entire realm of what is commonly defined as ‘social’; from another perspective demographics constitute an important dimension of society. Yet, most often these relationships are not balanced. Social (in the wide sense, e.g. including cultural, economic and political) determinants of demographic characteristics and population trends are und...

Does public infrastructure affect economic activity? Evidence from the rural interstate highway system

We examine the relationship between large infrastructure spending, of the type implied by interstate highway construction, and the level of economic activity. By collecting historical data on interstate highway construction and economic activity in the United States at the county level we find that highways have a differential impact across industries: certain industries grow as a result of red...

Allocation of Liability to Uncompensated Landowners for Damages Arising in the Interstate Highway System

Allocation of Liability to Uncompensated Landowners for Damages Arising in the Interstate Highway System