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Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...

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A threshold model of urban development

Vesperoni, Alberto; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018

We propose a simple model of distribution of economic activity across cities of endogenous size and number determined by individual incentives in the tradition of threshold models of social interaction. The individuals populating our model are endowed with idiosyncratic entrepreneurial...

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Housing environmental risk in urban areas : cross country comparison and policy implications

Chiarini, Bruno; D'Agostino, Antonella; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2017

The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …

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Subjective well-being and income : is there any evidence of satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013 - This draft: April 16, 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised

This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …

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Trust, racial fragmentation and income inequality : new evidence from the US

Tesei, Andrea - 2014

Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...

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A two stage approach to spatiotemporal analysis with strong and weak cross-sectional dependence

Bailey, Natalia; Holly, Sean; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2014

An understanding of the spatial dimension of economic and social activity requires methods that can separate out the relationship between spatial units that is due to the effect of common factors from that which is purely spatial even in an abstract sense. The same applies to the empirical...

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