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Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity

Redding, Stephen J.; Turner, Matthew A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

general equilibrium implications of transportation infrastructure improvements within and between locations for wages … effects of transportation infrastructure improvements on economic development, paying particular attention to the use of … exogenous sources of variation in the construction of transportation infrastructure. We examine evidence from different spatial …

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City Size Distributions As A Consequence of the Growth Process

Duranton, Gilles - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

The size distribution of cities in many countries follows some broadly regular patterns. Any good theory of city size distributions should (i) be able to account for this regularity, but also (ii) rely on a plausible economic mechanism and (iii) be consistent with other fundamental features of...

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Temple, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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Trade Integration, Market Size and Industrialization: Evidence from China's National Trunk Highway System

Faber, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Large scale transport infrastructure investments connect both large metropolitan centers of production as well as small …

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Rising Trade Costs? Agglomeration and Trade with Endogenous Transaction Costs

Duranton, Gilles; Storper, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of trade.

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In brief...Blackout babies: the impact of power cuts on fertility

Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

A rolling blackout in Colombia in the early 1990s led to a rise in unplanned births, according to research by Amar Shanghavi and colleagues. What's more, young women who became mothers after the blackout had worse outcomes in later life. The impact of power outages on fertility is an important...

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An Urban Legend?! Power Rationing, Fertility and its Effects on Mothers

Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus, generate "mini baby booms". We study a period of extensive power rationing in Colombia that lasted for most of 1992 and see whether this has increased births in the subsequent year,...

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Industrial Structure and Child Labor: Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census

Rosati, Furio Camillo; Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

This paper uses micro data from the 1980, 1991 and 2000 population censuses to investigate the role of changes in the industry mix in accounting for the differential trends in the incidence of child work (ages 10-15) across Brazilian states. We find that exogenous compositional changes account...

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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...

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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000

Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations using 3,000 verbs from around 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOTs). Using micro-data from the United States from 1880-2000, we find an increase in the employment share...

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