When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments
Baum-Snow, N., Henderson, J. V.
, Turner, M. A., Zhang, Q. & Brandt, L.
(2016).
When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments.
, Turner, M. A., Zhang, Q. & Brandt, L.
(2016).
When models fall short: Evidence from Chinese road infrastructure investments.
Despite limits to data quality and to the possibilities for recovering causal relationships between infrastructure investment, urbanisation and economic growth, quantitative models may prove to be weak substitutes for direct empirical evidence. For evidence based policymaking, research technique matters.