Zeitschrift des Königlich Preussischen Statistischen Landesamts.

12. Jahrg. contains "Beiträge zur Statistik des Krieges von 1870/71 Von Dr. Engel."Directors: 18 -1881, Ernst Engel.--1882-19 E. Blenck.12. Jahrg. contains "Beiträge zur Statistik des Krieges von 1870/71 Von Dr. Engel.""Wirkliche und Mittelpreise der wichtigsten Verpflegungsmittel für Menschen und Tiere in den bedeutensten Marktorten der Preussischen Monarchie" 1879-1905 are issued as supplements to vol. 19- This was previously issued as part of the text.Mode of access: Internet

RAILROADS AND GROWTH IN PRUSSIA

We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using GIS techniques, we match triennial population data for roughly 1,000 cities in nineteenth-century Prussia to georeferenced maps of the German railroad network. We find positive short- and long-term effects of having a station on urban growth for different periods during 1840--1871. Causal effects of (potentially endogenous) railroad access on city growth are identified using propensity score matching, instrumental variables, and fixed-effects estimation techniques. Our instrument identifies exogenous variation in railroad access by constructing straight-line corridors between nodes. Counterfactual models using pre-railroad growth yield no evidence to support the hypothesis that railroads appeared as a consequence of a previous growth spurt