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Illicit shadows : an economic analysis of trade gaps in cultural goods through the Italian market

Acciai, Elia; Belloni, Michele; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2023

This paper provides evidence of a consistent gap in the value of cultural goods exported from Italy and the value declared by its trading partners in official trade statistics for the period 1994-2021 and discusses it in the context of the literature on illicit trafficking in cultural property,...

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Creativity over time and space

Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Migration and urbanisation in post-apartheid South Africa

Bakker, Jan David; Parsons, Christopher A.; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2016

in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the … homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people than a more distant town following the removal of mobility … areas. We find evidence for path dependence in the aggregate, but substantial heterogeneity across town densities. An …

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Flooding the brains : natural disasters, student outcomes, and the urban-rural gap in human capital

Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2024

This study provides evidence that natural disasters negatively affect student outcomes, potentially explaining the lower academic achievement of students in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts in developing countries. Using data from the Colombian school census, I estimate a...

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Oportunidades : program effect on consumption, low participation, and methodological issues

Angelucci, Manuela; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009

In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...

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Does longer compulsory education equalize schooling by gender and rural/urban residence?

Kirdar, Murat G.; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Koç, Ismet - 2014

This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 - which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure - on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and rural...

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What drives the urban wage premium? : evidence along the wage distribution

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2013

This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...

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Spatial frictions

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2013

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...

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Analysis of the determinants of income and income gap between urban and rural China

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2013

This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze four waves of the China Health and Nutrition...

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