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Latin American Household Budget Surveys 1913-1970 and What They Tell Us About Economic Inequality Among Households
Gazeley, Ian - 2018
The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the …
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Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families : Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?
Campaña, Juan - 2018
the household is an important factor that should be considered when analyzing household decisions …
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Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country
Giesen, Kristian - 2009
The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also for the city size distributions in single German regions. To analyze this phenomenon, we build on the insights by Gabaix (1999) that Zipf's law follows from a stochastic growth...
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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
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Optimal Spatial Taxation : Are Big Cities Too Small?
Eeckhout, Jan - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap : Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Xing, Chunbing; Yuan, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large cities help alleviate the colocation problem of married couples. Using data from China, we show that...
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The Size Distribution Across All "Cities" : A Unifying Approach
Giesen, Kristian - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities : Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2021
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of industries...
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City Beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - 2021
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
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Neighbourhood Gangs, Crime Spillovers, and Teenage Motherhood
Dustmann, Christian; Mertz, Mikkel; Okatenko, Anna - 2023
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 gang crime (but not other crime) increases the likelihood of teenage … motherhood for girls. Higher levels of gang crime also have detrimental and long-lasting effects, with men experiencing …
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