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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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Empowerment zones, neighborhood change and owner occupied housing
Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656906
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Home market effect versus multinationals
Toulemonde, Eric (contributor) - 2007
We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597770
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Migration externalities in Chinese cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498529
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Inter-city spillover and intra-city agglomeration effects among local labour markets in China
Gong, Xiaodong; Gao, Jiti; Liang, Xuan - 2019
cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005580
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Network effects on labor contracts of internal migrants in China : a spatial autoregressive model
Baltagi, Badi H.; Deng, Ying; Ma, Xiangjun - 2017
This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709936
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Integration of technological and social components in a smart urban development model : a case study of China
Heshmati, Almas; Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, … - 2022
The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index … index is used to rank provinces in China by development of level of the networking among public infrastructure components …
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Ambivalence in place attachment : the lived experiences of residents in declining neighbourhoods facing demolition in Shenyang, China
Li, Xin; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2017
Shenyang, China. Through in-depth interviews with homeowners living in danwei communities, or urban villages, at the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607523
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Walled cities and urban density in China
Du, Rui; Zhang, Junfu - 2018
cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …
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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring
Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016
Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies … on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced … restructuring in China. It takes forced relocation to be a process with changing contents over time, and as a specific type of …
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