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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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Crime, inequality and subsidized housing : evidence from South Africa
Manea, Roxana; Patrizio, Piraino; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …
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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence
Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...
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Roots of inequality
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2023 - This version: August 2023
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped by the prehistorical out …-of-Africa migration. Exploring the roots of inequality within the US population, we find supporting evidence for our hypothesis: variation …
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
The effects of ethnic geography, i.e., the distribution of ethnic groups across space, on economic, political and social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we...
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The farmer, the blue-collar, and the monk : understanding economic development through saturations of demands and non-homothetic productivity gains
Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André; Le Bris, David - 2018 - This draft: April 9, 2018
To explain the process of development historically documented, we consider a model with three economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of agricultural and manufactured goods. Our parsimonious...
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...
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