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Customary land conversion in African cities
Picard, Pierre M.; Selod, Harris - 2023
We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways....
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Integration of technological and social components in a smart urban development model : a case study of China
Heshmati, Almas; Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, … - 2022
The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index … index is used to rank provinces in China by development of level of the networking among public infrastructure components …
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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457407
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Explaining trends in adult height in China: 1950 to 1990
Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2021
This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519333
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The costs of agglomeration : land prices in French cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
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Bright minds, big rent : gentrification and the rising returns to skill
Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia; Sviatschi, Maria - 2015
In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set...
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Search, migration, and urban land use : the case of transportation policies
Zenou, Yves - 2010
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
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Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...
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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects : evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia
Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012
This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...
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Urban infrastructure and economic development : experimental evidence from street pavement
González-Navarro, Marco; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010
We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing values by 16% and land values by 54%, according to professional appraisals. Using homeowner...
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