Are infrastructures important to stop rural depopulation?

• Autores: Verónica Cañal Fernández, Antonio Álvarez Pinilla
• Localización: XIII Congreso de Economía Agroalimentaria / coord. por María Dolores de Miguel Gómez; Narciso Arcas Lario (dir.), 2021, ISBN 978-84-17853-43-3, págs. 239-242
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this article is to study the causes of rural depopulation and, particularly, the role of infrastructures. To do this we build a panel data set at the municipal level where the rural population has been defined at a very fine level of granularity. The main results show the importance of infrastructures to maintain rural population. The presence of a medium-size town in the municipality helps to fix the population in the countryside. However, the income gap with urban municipalities contributes to reduce rural population.