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A Spatial Analysis of Inward FDI and Rural-Urban Wage Inequality : Evidence from China

Wang, Hao - 2020

When investigating the relationship between inward FDI and rural-urban inequality, previous studies overlook the inter-regional interactions. Building on the literature that highlights the significant role of rural-urban migration in inequality, this article investigates spatial spillover effect...

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The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure - Does Government Ideology Matter?

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...

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Spatial Inequality, Geography and Economic Activity

Achten, Sandra - 2019

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...

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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021

There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...

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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?

Abramitzky, Ran - 2020

In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...

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Population Density and Urban Air Quality

Borck, Rainald - 2019

We use panel data from Germany to analyze the effect of population density on urban air pollution (nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ozone). To address unobserved heterogeneity and omitted variables, we present long difference/fixed effects estimates and instrumental variables estimates,...

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Urbanization, Productivity Differences and Spatial Frictions

Arcalean, Calin - 2019

We study decentralized and optimal urbanization in a simple multi-sector model of a rural-urban economy focusing on productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the literature, such as agglomeration, congestion or...

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Urban Pollution : A Global Perspective

Borck, Rainald; Schrauth, Philipp - 2023

We use worldwide satellite data to analyse how population size and density affect urban pollution. We find that density significantly increases pollution exposure. Looking only at urban areas, we find that population size affects exposure more than density. Moreover, the effect is driven mostly...

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Migrants and Firms : Evidence from China

Imbert, Clément - 2019

This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data on manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2006 and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration due to agricultural price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs...

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Unemployment and gang crime: could prosperity backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

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