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When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development
De Weerdt, Joachim; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2021
While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring
Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016
Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative...
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Does light touch cluster policy work? : evaluating the Tech City programme
Nathan, Max - 2019
Despite academic scepticism, cluster policies remain popular with policymakers. This paper evaluates the causal impact of a flagship UK technology cluster programme. I build a simple framework and identify effects using difference-in-differences and synthetic controls on rich microdata. I...
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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Secondary towns and poverty reduction : refocusing the urbanization agenda
Christiaensen, Luc J.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
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Forced off farm? : labor allocation response to land requisition in rural China
Shuang Ma; Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …
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Young women in cities
Koh, Yumi; Li, Jing; Wu, Yifan; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Hanzhe - 2023
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …
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Migration externalities in Chinese cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...
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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration
Krupka, Douglas J. (contributor) - 2008
production, or urbanization economies in consumption. On their own, none of these urban scale effects generate the observed …. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional equilibrium ; natural advantage ; economic geography …
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Entrepreneurship and market size : the case of young college graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - 2010
fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Province's competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …
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