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Can we learn anything from economic geography proper?

Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper considers the ways geographers (proper) and (geographical) economists approach the study of economic geography. It argues that there are two areas where the approach of the latter is more robust than the former. First, formal models identify which assumptions are crucial in obtaining...

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Zipf’s law for cities : an empirical examination

Ioannides, Yannis Menelaos; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

's Law for cities. Previous investigations are restricted to regressions of log size against log rank. In contrast, we use a … test for the validity of Gibrat's Law for city growth processes. Despite variation in growth rates as a function of city … size, Gibrat's Law does hold. In addition the local Zipf exponents are broadly consistent with Zipf's Law. Deviations from …

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Economic linkages across space

Overman, Henry G.; Rice, Patricia; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

A diagrammatic framework is developed to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been a focus of the literature. The framework is used to analyse the impact of shocks that occur in one region (for example, productivity improvements or increases in...

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Economic linkages across space

Overman, Henry G.; Rice, Patricia; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. We show that our general framework can be used to interpret both the New...

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Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality

Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower in disadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has been focused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring the relationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the quality...

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Is targeting deprived areas an effective means to reach poor people? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes

Tunstall, Rebecca; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK. One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Area deprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviews the different results produced by these indices. It then...

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Smart growth: the future of the American metropolis?

Katz, Bruce - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

metropolitan areas could grow in radically different ways if major government policies on land use, infrastructure and taxation … government policies facilitate the excessive decentralization of people and jobs and how smart growth reforms are being enacted …

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Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework to compare the two approaches. We then use this framework to study a number...

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Concentration versus re-matching? Evidence about the locational effects of commuting costs

Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using administrative employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit two reductions of tax breaks for commuting in 2003/4 and 2006/7 to estimate commuting costs’ effect on the decision to switch job and move house. Standard theory predicts that higher commuting costs should lead to increased...

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School quality, child wellbeing and parents' satisfaction

Gibbons, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Researchers in economics of education usually assume that parents choose schools for their high academic performance, with some support from revealed preference evidence based on local house prices. However, anecdotal evidence and common sense suggest that school quality is not one-dimensional...

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