This paper quantifies the impact of market access on local GDP in the West Bank, proxied by nighttime lights, using the deployment of road closure obstacles by the Israeli army between 2005 and 2012 as a quasi-natural experiment generating exogenous temporal and spatial variation in accessibility. Minimum travel times between locality pairs are computed using road network and obstacles data supplemented with information on checkpoint traversal times...
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2018/03/27
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS8385
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2018/03/27
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Obstacles on the road to Palestinian economic growth
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market access