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Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...

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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: evidence from developing countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low …

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Urbanization and Economic Development: A Tale of Two Barriers

Bond, Eric; Riezman, Raymond G.; Wang, Ping - 2016

In this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China’s growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …

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Frederick Jackson Turner and the Westward Expanse: Changing Net Nutrition with Economic Development

Carson, Scott A. - 2016

A population’s average stature reflects its cumulative net nutrition and provides important insight when more traditional measures for economic well-being is scarce or unreliable. Heights on the US Central Plains did not experience the antebellum paradox experienced in Eastern urban areas, and...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …

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Structural change, urban congestion, and the end of growth

Grossmann, Volker - 2011

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...

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Urban squatting with rent-seeking organizers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2012

This paper extends a new line of research on urban squatting that focuses on the role of the squatter organizer. The model replaces the benevolent organizer from previous studies with a collection of competing, rent-seeking squatter organizers, a structure that may offer a realistic picture of...

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Pandemics, places, and populations: evidence from the Black Death

Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019

The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...

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Rush hours and urbanization

Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...

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