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Airports and the Production of Goods and Services

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This paper estimates the effects of airport infrastructure on local sectoral employment, using data from the United States. To address the potential endogeneity in the determination of airport locations and sizes, the 1944 National Airport Plan is used to instrument for the current distribution of airports. The Plan had a strong effect on subsequent airport construction but appears to have been unrelated to other factors for current sectoral employment. Airport size is found to have a positive effect on local employment in tradable services, with an elasticity of approximately 0.15, but no measurable effect on non-tradable services. There is a negative effect on manufacturing. The effects are relevant to the evaluation of airport construction or improvement projects that aim to attract firms by making travel to and from the local area more convenient.

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  • Sheard, Nicholas, 2012. "Airports and the Production of Goods and Services," Research Papers in Economics 2012:7, Stockholm University, Department of Economics, revised 17 Jan 2013.
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    Keywords

    Air transport; services trade; infrastructure;
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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • R41 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise

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