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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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...
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Growth in Regions
Gennaioli, Nicola - 2013
We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year,...
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Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities : Evidence from Amsterdam
Almagro, Milena; Domínguez-Iino, Tomás - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, we show the distributional effects of mass tourism depend on this heterogeneity: following rent increases due to growing …
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The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility : Evidence from World War II
Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions. Specifically, we examine publicly financed plants built in dispersed locations outside of major urban centers for security...
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Place-Based Economic Development and Long-Run Firm Employment and Sales : Evidence from American Indian Reservations
Aguilar, Joseph A.; Akee, Randall; Mykerezi, Elton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine how one of the largest U.S. place-based economic development programs, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988, with annual revenues in excess of \$40 billion, affects local firm total employment and sales through direct channels and through IGRA's effects on adjacent...
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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access
Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...
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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China
Heblich, Stephan; Seror, Marlon; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We identify negative spillovers exerted by large, successful manufacturing plants on other local production facilities in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. Our identification strategy exploits the...
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The Wandering Scholars : Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization
Lerner, Joshua; Manley, Henry J.; Stein, Carolyn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
University-based scientific research has long been argued to be a central source of commercial innovation and economic growth. Yet at the same time, there have been long-held concerns that many university-based discoveries never realize their potential social benefits. Looking across...
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The Effect of Postsecondary Educational Institutions on Local Economies : A Bird's-Eye View
Lehnert, Patrick; Dell, Madison; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Despite worldwide expansion of higher education, the impact of higher education institutions on local economic activity is still poorly understood. We analyze the local economic effects of branch campus openings in Tennessee and Texas, two states representative of the underlying U.S. enrollment...
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Tourism and Economic Development : Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
Faber, Benjamin - 2016
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican … consequences of tourism both locally and in the aggregate. We find that tourism causes large and significant local economic gains … regions, so that the national gains from trade in tourism are mainly driven by a classical market integration effect …
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