Replication Data: Dynamic Bank Expansion – Spatial Growth, Financial Access, and Inequality
Creators:
Yan Ji, Songyuan Teng, and Robert M. Townsend
Publication Date:
2022-11-07
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Dataset Description:
This dataset, hosted on Harvard Dataverse, contains the replication data for the study "Dynamic Bank Expansion: Spatial Growth, Financial Access, and Inequality" (Ji, Teng & Townsend, 2023, Journal of Political Economy). It includes bank branch-level and household-level data from Thailand used to examine how the spatial expansion of banking networks affects financial access, economic growth, and inequality across regions, providing evidence on the distributional consequences of bank branch entry and the role of geography in financial development.
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