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Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects Among Local Labour Markets in China

Gong, Xiaodong - 2019

We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and allowing for endogenous and exogenous spatial dependence,...

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The Power of Hydroelectric Dams : Agglomeration Spillovers

Severnini, Edson - 2014

How much of the geographic clustering of economic activity is attributable to agglomeration spillovers as opposed to … attenuated, suggesting the presence of important agglomeration spillovers. Over a 50 year horizon, I estimate that at least one … half of the long run effect of pre-1950 dams is due to spillovers. The estimated short and long run effects are highly …

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Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Faber, Riemer P. - 2012

This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for them. We argue that municipalities incur expenses to use the grant. If these costs are substantial,...

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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education : Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers

Bennhoff, Frederik; García, Jorge Luis; Ermini Leaf, Duncan - 2023

We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...

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Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages

Demir, Gökay - 2023

This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of the minimum wage on workers and industries outside the minimum wage sector. The results show that...

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Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood

Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023

Using an identification strategy based on random assignment of refugees to different municipalities in Denmark between 1986 and 1998, we find strong evidence that gang crime rates in the neighbourhood at assignment increase the probability of boys to commit crimes before the age of 19, and that...

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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2009

inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1940 …-2000 state panel, we show that immigrants do have positive spill-overs, resulting in an increase in patents per capita of 9 …

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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

knowledge spillovers and shift a location to a higher growth path …

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The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers

Moretti, Enrico - 2019

international spillovers, as increases in government-funded R&D in a particular industry and country raise private R&D in the same …

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Sibling Spillover in Rural China : A Story of Sisters and Daughters

Bansak, Cynthia - 2020

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the...

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