Data and Code for: The Local Impact of Containerization

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Leah Brooks, George Washington University; Nicolas Gendron-Carrier, McGill University; Gisela Rua, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Project Citation: 

Brooks, Leah, Gendron-Carrier, Nicolas, and Rua, Gisela. Data and Code for: The Local Impact of Containerization. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-04-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/E199582V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We investigate how containerization impacts local economic activity. Containerization is premised on a simple insight: packaging goods for waterborne trade into a standardized container makes them cheaper to move. We use a novel cost-shifter instrument—port depth pre-containerization—to contend with the non-random adoption of containerization by ports. Container ships sit much deeper in the water than their predecessors, making initially deep ports cheaper to containerize. We find that counties near containerized ports grew twice as rapidly as other coastal port counties between 1950 and 2010 because of containerization. Gains are concentrated in areas with initially low land values.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Containerization; Ports; Agglomeration; Local economic activity
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1910 – 2010


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