, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and … development. Evidence from the failed Industrial Revolution in 14th-century China illustrates the empirical relevance of the …

identify the determinants of within-city changes in air pollution concentration between 2005 and 2011. Increasing car and … population densities significantly reduce air pollution concentration in city centers where air pollution induced health risks … favour of (ii). We also observe a complex relationship between income and pollution concentration as well as a general …

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …

personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a …