主  題: The Role of Transportation Speed in Facilitating High Skilled Worker Matching and Interaction

內(nèi)容簡介: High skilled workers gain from face to face interactions.  If the skilled can move at higher speeds, then such knowledge diffusion and spillovers are likely to reach greater distances.
This paper uses the construction of China’s high speed rail(HSR) network as a natural experiment to test this claim. Since bullet trains reduce cross-city commute times, they reduce the cost of face-to-face interactions between skilled workers who live and work in different cities.  Using a complete data base listing research paper publication and citations, we document a complementarity effect between knowledge production and the transportation network.  Co-authors’ productivity rises and more new co-author pairs emerge when secondary cities are connected to China’s top universities located in the major cities.
報(bào)告人: 董曉芳      博士

時(shí)  間: 2018-03-29   14:00

地  點(diǎn): 位育樓117

舉辦單位：城市發(fā)展研究院