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Cervellati, Matteo - 2011

also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …

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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the … US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law …

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Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery : Filling Data Gaps Across Time and Space

Lehnert, Patrick; Niederberger, Michael; … - 2022

. Compared to satellite data on night light intensity, another common economic proxy, our proxy more precisely predicts economic …

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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity

McDermott, Grant R. - 2013

of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in … increased river temperatures on German electricity prices from 2002 to 2009. Having controlled for demand effects, the results … indicate that the electricity price is significantly impacted by both a change in river temperatures and the relative abundance …

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Tax Elasticity of Border Sales : A Meta-Analysis

Dat Huynh; Sokolova, Anna; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2022

' products; that while the cross-border shopping is prominent in the US, it is much less prevalent in Europe and other countries …

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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Lozano, Fernando - 2010

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S., or moves the point of...

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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

Bohn, Sarah - 2013

We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...

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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection : A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective

Akee, Randall - 2012

We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market – the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and final buyers, and the elasticity of buyers' demand. In a model of two-way bargaining, the exact...

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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...

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