Replication data for: Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

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Project Citation:

Faber, Benjamin, and Gaubert, Cecile. Replication data for: Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico’s Coastline. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113159V1

Project Description

Summary: Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new empirical strategy to study the long-term economic consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains relative to less touristic regions that are in part driven by significant positive spillovers on manufacturing. In the aggregate, however, these local spillovers are largely offset by reductions in agglomeration economies among less touristic regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
      L83 Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
      O14 Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      R11 Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
      Z31 Tourism: Industry Studies
      Z32 Tourism and Development

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