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We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the … regions also benefit, but only in autocratic regimes. Generic non-mining regions, on the other hand, are worse off. These … results suggest that regional redistribution of resource rents in Africa is primarily undertaken to the benefit of capital …
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We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...
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This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany’s economic geography observed in recent decades. Using novel data on economic activity in 163 labor market regions in West Germany, we establish that nearly half of them...
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
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