The results of this study for the 50 states imply that considerations of distance play an important role in the … migration decision of blacks, with the distance variable being statistically significant at the five percent level or better in …

Long distance coach services in Italy represent an almost unknown mode of transport to the general public, often … specifically focused on long distance coach transport in Italy, carried out by the authors (Beria et al., 2012). We provide policy … the European air industry after the liberalisation of the 90’s. We developed a geographical database of the long distance …

This paper explores the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders on international and … distance effects increase over time for the same-age citations. This increasing effect of borders and distance is associated … with strengthened knowledge agglomeration over time. Nevertheless, both border and distance effects decrease with the age …

Proximity to the markets is a key determinant of the location of firms because distance still matters, as recently …

geographic proximity, in terms of distance and border, matters for the spread of knowledge for both channels; however, it is more … evidence that the importance of distance has declined over time, either at state or national level for both types of flows. …

In the context of the New Economic Geography (NEG) wage equation, the ‘curse of distance’ is the tendency of peripheral …

middle-income countries deliver outside of health facilities, without skilled help. Distance to health facility is considered … in the distance to the nearest health facility decreases the probability of institutional delivery by 4.4%. The results … from policy simulation suggest that restricting the maximum distance to 5 kilometers would increase institutional delivery …

provide better understanding of relationship among gravity, distance and time with the support of laws of astrophysics. An … assumption was made for a constant factor that (P) is the product of distance covered by the body and gravitational force acting …