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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany

Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...

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The elusive quest for the holy grail of an impact of EU funds on regional growth

Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Zajkowska, Olga - 2019

We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle the potential problem of endogeneity, and estimating a spatial model to account for inter-regional spillovers. We use the presence of environmentally protected areas (under the...

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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 determinants of economic growth in European regions

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009

We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...

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Local economic growth and infant mortality

Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2021

We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...

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The impact of the spatial population distribution on economic growth : evidence from the United States

Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2022

We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...

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Do economic crises lead tourists to closer destinations? : an analysis of Italy's regional data

Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - 2015

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism … dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000 - -12 period; across this period, 2008 to …

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How new airport infrastructure promotes tourism : evidence from a synthetic control approach in German regions

Dörr, Luisa; Dorn, Florian; Gäbler, Stefanie; … - 2019

We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially …

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A beam of light : media, tourism & economic development

Nocito, Samuel; Sartarelli, Marcello; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2021

Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … factor of 2.5. Furthermore, we provide evidence of positive spillovers in nearby municipalities. To estimate the tourism …

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