We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

Infrastructure assets have undergone substantial privatization in recent decades. How do different types of owners target and manage these assets? And does the contract form--control rights (concession) vs. outright ownership (sale)--matter? We explore these questions in the context of global...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.Measurement of Regional Inequality -- Chapter 3.Analysis of Regional Inequality -- Chapter 4.Economic Tertialization, Output Deindustrialization and Income Inequality in Indonesia: A Bi-dimensional Inequality Decomposition Analysis -- Chapter 5.Structural...

This textbook offers an introduction to empirical regional economics, including a comprehensive and systematic overview of the fundamentals, history, development, and applications of economic base models. It not only provides a sound basis for regional economics and regional economic analysis,...

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today. Regional inequality is currently one of the most pressing...

Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction to “Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia” -- Part II. South Asia -- Chapter 2. Food Consumption, Calorie Intake, and Undernourishment in India: The Recent Evidence on the Role of Welfare Schemes -- Chapter 3. The...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART I: Growth, Employment and Inequality -- Chapter 2. Deciphering Growth and Development: Past and Present -- Chapter 3. Labour Market Outcomes and Inclusive Development -- Chapter 4. Growth, Employment and Inequality -- Chapter 5. Intra-state Disparities in Economic...

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity. Spatial Economics is the branch of economics that explicitly aims to incorporate the space dimension in the analysis of economic phenomena. From its beginning in the last century, Spatial Economics has contributed to the understanding of the...

Between 2000 and 2008, access to high-speed, broadband internet grew significantly in the United States, but there is debate on whether access to high-speed internet improves or harms wellbeing. We find that a ten percent increase in the proportion of county residents with access to broadband...