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The Value of a Healthy Home : Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values

Billings, Stephen B. - 2017

The presence of lead paint significantly impairs cognitive and behavioral development, yet little is known about the value to households of avoiding this residence-specific environmental health risk. In this paper, we estimate the benefits of lead-paint remediation on housing prices. Using data...

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City Air or City Markets:Productivity Gains in Urban Areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number ofresearchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills incities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result,however, is that...

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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region

Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2012

This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is dominated by Polish identity residents while those who suburbanise into the region are mainly ethnic...

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence : Meta-Analytic Evidence

Ozgen, Ceren - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of … is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of a region by one percentage point in increases the per capita … income growth rate in that region on average by about 0.1 percentage points, thus suggesting an impact of net migration that …

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Does Emigration Affect Pro-Environmental Behaviour Back Home? A Long-Term, Local-Level Perspective

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2020

well as transfer new norms and practices across borders, this finding supports the hypothesis that migration contributes to …

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On the Origin and Composition of the German East-West Population Gap

Eder, Christoph - 2019

internal migration wave 3 years prior to the establishment of the GDR. The timing and spatial pattern of this migration …

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The Long-Lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium

Eder, Christoph - 2016

demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration shock to further our understanding of why economic activity is …

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Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?

Coates, Dennis - 2010

In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing and in some cases reversing population declines. In this paper, we examine whether faster growth...

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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence

Coibion, Olivier - 2014

The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...

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